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
Gauged N=4, d=6 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity and "antisymmetric-tensor Chern-Simons" forms.
– Phys Rev D Part Fields
(1986)
33,
1557
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.33.1557)
N = 2 SUPERSTRINGS IN A SUPERGRAVITY BACKGROUND
– Physics Letters B
(1985)
162,
116
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)91071-8)
d = 8 Maxwell/Einstein supergravity
– Physics Letters B
(1985)
156,
51
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(85)91353-x)
GAUGING THE D=5 MAXWELL-EINSTEIN SUPERGRAVITY THEORIES - MORE ON JORDAN ALGEBRAS
– Nuclear Physics B
(1985)
253,
573
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90547-4)
N=4 MAXWELL-EINSTEIN SUPERGRAVITY IN 5 DIMENSIONS AND ITS SU(2) GAUGING
– Nuclear Physics B
(1985)
255,
617
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(85)90156-7)
Stability at a local maximum in higher-dimensional anti-de Sitter space, and applications to supergravity
– Annals of Physics
(1985)
160,
406
Positive energy and the scalar potential in higher dimensional (super) gravity theories
– Physics Letters B
(1984)
148,
55
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)91610-1)
VANISHING POTENTIALS IN GAUGED N=2 SUPERGRAVITY - AN APPLICATION OF JORDAN ALGEBRAS
– Physics Letters B
(1984)
144,
41
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(84)90172-2)
Quantization of the gauge coupling constant in a five-dimensional yang-mills-einstein supergravity theory
– Physical Review Letters
(1984)
53,
322
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.53.322)
Stability of gauged d=7 supergravity, and the definition of masslessness in adS7
– Physics Letters. Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1984)
143,
384
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