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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

Domain-wall/cosmology correspondence in AdS/dS supergravity
K Skenderis, PK Townsend, A Van Proeyen
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
036
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/036)
Axion-dilaton domain walls and fake supergravity
J Sonner, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2007)
24,
3479
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/021)
Pseudo-supersymmetry and the domain-wall/cosmology correspondence
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2007)
40,
6733
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/40/25/S18)
Planar super-Landau models revisited
T Curtright, L Mezincescu, E Ivanov, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
020
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/04/020)
The D2 SUSY zoo
D Bak, N Ohta, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2007)
2007,
013
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/013)
Hamilton-Jacobi method for curved domain walls and cosmologies
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D
(2006)
74,
125008
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.125008)
Open M5-branes.
EA Bergshoeff, GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Phys Rev Lett
(2006)
97,
231601
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.231601)
Recurrent acceleration in dilaton-axion cosmology
J Sonner, PK Townsend
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(2006)
74,
103508
(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.74.103508)
Self-gravitating Yang monopoles in all dimensions
GW Gibbons, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2006)
23,
4873
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/15/007)
Hidden supersymmetry of domain walls and cosmologies.
K Skenderis, PK Townsend
– Physical review letters
(2006)
96,
191301
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.191301)
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Research Group

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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