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
Kaluza-Klein origin for the superstring tension.
– Physical review. D, Particles and fields
(1992)
45,
r3321
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.45.R3321)
Worldsheet electromagnetism and the superstring tension
– Physics Letters B
(1992)
277,
285
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(92)90748-S)
Classical anomalies of supersymmetric extended objects
– Physics Letters B
(1991)
267,
366
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(91)90947-O)
Supertwistor formulation of the spinning particle
– Physics Letters B
(1991)
261,
65
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(91)91326-q)
The massless superparticle as Chern-Simons mechanics
– Physics Letters B
(1991)
259,
285
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(91)90830-j)
Intersecting extended objects in supersymmetric field theories
– Nuclear Physics, Section B
(1991)
351,
313
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(91)90093-D)
Higher-spin symmetries of the massless (super)particle
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(1991)
8,
1231
Particle actions as Wess-Zumino terms for spacetime (super) symmetry groups
– Physics Letters B
(1990)
249,
255
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)91251-6)
Supersymmetry and the physical-phase-space formulation of spinning particles
– Physics Letters B
(1990)
248,
288
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(90)90294-g)
Super p-branes as gauge theories of volume preserving diffeomorphisms
– Annals of Physics
(1990)
199,
340
(doi: 10.1016/0003-4916(90)90381-W)
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