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Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Professor Paul Kingsley Townsend

Career

  • Postdoc positions at SUNY, Stony Brook, USA; CERN (UK junior fellow), Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (Joliot-Curie fellow).
  • Appointed DAMTP lecturer 1984. Currently DAMTP Professor of Theoretical Physics.
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2000

Research

General Relativity, supersymmetry, string/M-theory, solitons, cosmology and various topics in Mathematical Physics

Recent Publications

 

  • E.A. Bergshoeff, W.Merbis, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``The Third Way to 3D Gravity'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. D24 (2015) 1544015
  • L. Mezincescu, A.J. Routh and P.K. Townsend, ``Twistors and the massive spinning particle'', J. Phys. A49 (2016) 025401
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, L. Mezincescu and P.K. Townsend, ``Worldline CPT and massless supermultiplets'', Int. J. Mod. Phys. A31 (2016) 1650152
  • J. Gomis and P.K. Townsend, ``The Galilean Superstring'', JHEP 1702 (2017) 105
  • A.S. Arvanitakis, A.E. Barns-Graham and P.K. Townsend, ``Anti-de Sitter particles and manifest (super)isometries'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 118 (2017) 141601

Publications

BPS states of D=4 N=1 supersymmetry
JP Gauntlett, GW Gibbons, CM Hull, PK Townsend
– Communications in Mathematical Physics
(2001)
216,
431
(doi: 10.1007/s002200000341)
Brane theory solitons
PK Townsend
– PROGRESS IN STRING THEORY AND M-THEORY
(2001)
564,
265
(link to publication)
M-brane interpolations and (2, 0) renormalization group flow
E Bergshoeff, RG Cai, N Ohta, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(2000)
495,
201
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01216-8)
Intersecting domain walls in MQCD
JP Gauntlett, GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2000)
483,
240
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(00)00582-7)
PhreMology: calibrating M-branes
PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2000)
17,
1267
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/17/5/336)
Gravitational stability and renormalization-group flow
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1999)
468,
46
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(99)01212-5)
Supersymmetric baryonic branes
J Gomis, J Simon, AV Ramallo, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
3,
019
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/11/019)
Supersymmetry and generalized calibrations
J Gutowski, G Papadopoulos, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(1999)
60,
106006
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.60.106006)
Bogomol'nyi equation for intersecting domain walls
GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Physical Review Letters
(1999)
83,
1727
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.83.1727)
Finite energy Dirac-Born-Infeld monopoles and string junctions
JP Gauntlett, C Koehl, D Mateos, PK Townsend, M Zamaklar
– Physical Review D
(1999)
6004,
045004
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.60.045004)
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
Relativity and Gravitation

Email

pkt10@cam.ac.uk

Room

B0.34

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/about/members/townsend.html

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