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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

Solitons on the supermembrane
E Bergshoeff, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(1999)
1999,
021
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/1999/05/021)
Black holes and Calogero models
GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(1999)
454,
187
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00266-X)
Superconformal mechanics, black holes, and nonlinear realizations
JA De Azcárraga, JM Izquierdo, JC Pérez Bueno, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1999)
59,
1
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.59.084015)
Superconformal mechanics, black holes, and nonlinear realizations
JA de Azcarraga, JM Izquierdo, JCP Bueno, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(1999)
5908,
1
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.59.084015)
Massive sigma-models with supersymmetry
G PAPADOPOULOS, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
515
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/3/007)
Spacetime scale-invariance and the super p-brane
E BERGSHOEFF, LAJ LONDON, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
9,
2545
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/9/12/002)
Massive ( p, q)-supersymmetric sigma models revisited
G PAPADOPOULOS, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
11,
2163
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/11/9/004)
Higher-dimensional resolution of dilatonic black-hole singularities
GW GIBBONS, GT HOROWITZ, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
12,
297
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/12/2/004)
Black holes of D=5 supergravity
JP Gauntlett, RC Myers, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
16,
1
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/16/1/001)
SUPERSYMMETRIC SPACETIMES IN (2+1)-ADS-SUPERGRAVITY MODELS
JM IZQUIERDO, PK TOWNSEND
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1999)
12,
895
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/12/4/003)
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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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