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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

Pauli-Lubanski, supertwistors, and the superspinning particle
AS Arvanitakis, L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2017)
2017,
151
(doi: 10.1007/jhep06(2017)151)
Tachyons in the Galilean limit
C Batlle, J Gomis, L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2017)
2017,
120
(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2017)120)
Anti-de Sitter Particles and Manifest (Super) Isometries
AS Arvanitakis, AE Barns-Graham, PK Townsend
– Physical Review Letters
(2017)
118,
141601
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.141601)
The Galilean superstring
J Gomis, PK Townsend
– Journal of High Energy Physics
(2017)
2017,
105
(doi: 10.1007/jhep02(2017)105)
Worldline CPT and massless supermultiplets
AS Arvanitakis, L Mezincescu, PK Townsend
– International Journal of Modern Physics A
(2016)
31,
1650152
(doi: 10.1142/s0217751x16501529)
Twistor form of massive 6D superparticle
AJ Routh, PK Townsend
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2015)
49,
025402
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/49/2/025402)
Twistors and the massive spinning particle
L Mezincescu, AJ Routh, PK Townsend
– Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
(2015)
49,
025401
(doi: 10.1088/1751-8113/49/2/025401)
The third way to 3D gravity
E Bergshoeff, W Merbis, AJ Routh, PK Townsend
– International Journal of Modern Physics D
(2015)
24,
1544015
(doi: 10.1142/S0218271815440150)
Yang-Mills as massive Chern-Simons theory: a third way to three-dimensional gauge theories.
AS Arvanitakis, A Sevrin, PK Townsend
– Physical Review Letters
(2015)
114,
181603
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.181603)
Minimal massive 3D gravity unitarity redux
AS Arvanitakis, PK Townsend
– Classical and Quantum Gravity
(2015)
32,
085003
(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/32/8/085003)
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Research Groups

High Energy Physics
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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