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Relativity and Gravitation Group

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

Supersymmetric Deformations of G2Manifolds from Higher-Order Corrections to String and M-Theory
H Lü, CN Pope, KS Stelle, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2004)
8,
019
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/019)
Supersymmetry of tensionless rotating strings in AdS5 X S5, and nearly-BPS operators -: art. no. 017
D Mateos, T Mateos, PK Townsend
– JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2003)
ARTN 017
(link to publication)
More on supersymmetric tensionless rotating strings in AdS5 x S5
PK Townsend, D Mateos, T Mateos
– hep-th/0401058
(2003)
Accelerating cosmologies from compactification
PK Townsend, MNR Wohlfarth
– Physical review letters
(2003)
91,
061302
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.061302)
Odd coset quantum mechanics
E Ivanov, L Mezincescu, A Pashnev, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2003)
566,
175
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(03)00393-9)
Surprises with Angular Momentum
PK Townsend
– Annales Henri Poincaré
(2003)
4,
183
(doi: 10.1007/s00023-003-0915-0)
Supercurves
D Mateos, S Ng, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters B
(2002)
538,
366
(doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01997-4)
Supersymmetric defect expansion in CFT from AdS supertubes
D Mateos, S Ng, PK Townsend
– JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2002)
048
(link to publication)
Sigma-model soliton intersections from exceptional calibrations
R Portugues, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2002)
6,
965
(doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/039)
Intersoliton forces in the Wess–Zumino model
R Portugues, PK Townsend
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(2002)
530,
227
(doi: 10.1016/s0370-2693(02)01323-0)
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Research Group

Relativity and Gravitation

Email

P.K.Townsend@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

B0.34

Personal homepage

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

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