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
The Born-Infeld action from conformal invariance of the open superstring
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
188,
70
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)90707-6)
World-sheet supergravity anomaly cancellation for the heterotic string in a ten-dimensional supergravity background
– Physics Letters B
(1987)
185,
73
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91530-9)
Cosmological evolution of degenerate vacua
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1987)
282,
610
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(87)90700-0)
A CHERN-SIMONS ACTION FOR 3-DIMENSIONAL ANTI-DESITTER SUPERGRAVITY THEORIES
– Physics Letters B
(1986)
180,
89
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(86)90140-1)
HETEROTIC-STRING ANOMALIES IN (1,0) SUPERSPACE
– Physics Letters B
(1986)
179,
247
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(86)90574-5)
World-sheet supersymmetry and anomaly cancellation in the heterotic string
– Physics Letters B
(1986)
178,
187
(doi: 10.1016/0370-2693(86)91493-0)
The unitary supermultiplets of d = 3 anti-de Sitter and d = 2 conformal superalgebras
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1986)
274,
429
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(86)90293-2)
Finiteness and conformal invariance in non-linear sigma models
– Nuclear Physics Section B
(1986)
274,
349
(doi: 10.1016/0550-3213(86)90289-0)
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