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
Unity of superstring dualities
– Nuclear Physics B
(1995)
438,
109
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)00559-W)
Macroscopic superstrings as interpolating solitons
– Physics Letters B
(1994)
332,
321
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(94)91260-2)
Supersymmetric self-gravitating solitons
– Nuclear Physics B
(1994)
416,
850
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90558-4)
Axionic defect anomalies and their cancellation
– Nuclear Physics B
(1994)
414,
93
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(94)90423-5)
Vacuum interpolation in supergravity via super p-branes
– Physical Review Letters
(1993)
71,
3754
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.3754)
Potentials for (p, 0) and (1, 1) supersymmetric sigma models with torsion
– Physics Letters B
(1993)
316,
291
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(93)90327-e)
Low-temperature thermodynamics of A2(2) and su(3)-invariant integrable spin chains
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1993)
406,
681
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90006-b)
Twistor transform for superfields
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1993)
402,
531
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90651-5)
Effective description of axion defects
– Physics Letters B
(1993)
309,
33
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(93)91499-d)
U(1)-EXTENDED GAUGE ALGEBRAS IN P-LOOP SPACE
– Nuclear Physics B
(1993)
398,
343
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(93)90113-4)
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