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It does not yet have a dedicated thread; feel free to create one, giving it the same name as the title of this page" style="color:black">Discuss this page</a> | <form accept-charset="utf-8" action="/nlab/search" id="navigationSearchForm" method="get"> <fieldset class="search"><input type="text" id="searchField" name="query" value="Search" style="display:inline-block; float: left;" onfocus="this.value == 'Search' ? this.value = '' : true" onblur="this.value == '' ? this.value = 'Search' : true" /></fieldset> </form> <span id='navEnd'></span> </div> <div id="revision"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8" /><title></title></head> <body> <p>Paul Townsend is professor for theoretical <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/physics">physics</a> at Cambridge.</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/p.k.townsend">institute page</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://inspirehep.net/authors/985767">inspire page</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Townsend">Wikipedia entry</a></p> </li> </ul> <h2 id="selected_writings">Selected writings</h2> <p>Early discussion of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D%27Auria-Fr%C3%A9+formulation+of+supergravity">D'Auria-Fré formulation of supergravity</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Riccardo+D%27Auria">Riccardo D'Auria</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Pietro+Fr%C3%A9">Pietro Fré</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Invariance of actions, rheonomy and the new minimal <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>N</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">N=1</annotation></semantics></math> supergravity in the group manifold approach</em>, Ann. Phys. 155 (1984) 423-446 [<a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/143990">cds:143990</a>, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-4916(84)90007-1">doi:10.1016/0003-4916(84)90007-1</a>, <a href="https://cds.cern.ch/record/143990/files/198305027.pdf">pdf</a>]</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D%3D6+supergravity">D=6 supergravity</a> formulated on <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/superspace">superspace</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Moustafa+A.+Awada">Moustafa A. Awada</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Germ%C3%A1n+Sierra">Germán Sierra</a>: <em>Six-dimensional simple and extended chiral supergravity in superspace</em>, Class. Quantum Grav. <strong>2</strong> (1985) L85 [<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/2/4/005">doi:10.1088/0264-9381/2/4/005</a>]</li> </ul> <p>On <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">D=6</annotation></semantics></math> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/spin+representations">spin representations</a> and <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/supersymmetry">supersymmetry</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Howe">Paul Howe</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Germ%C3%A1n+Sierra">Germán Sierra</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Supersymmetry in six dimensions</em>, Nuclear Physics B <p><strong>221</strong> 2 (1983) 331-348 [<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(83)90582-5">doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90582-5</a>]</p> </li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D%3D7+supergravity">D=7 supergravity</a> (as <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/gauged+supergravity">gauged supergravity</a>):</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Peter+van+Nieuwenhuizen">Peter van Nieuwenhuizen</a>, <em>Gauged Seven-Dimensional Supergravity</em> , Phys. Lett. 125B (1983) 41 (<a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/189055">spire:189055</a>, <a hraf="https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(83)91230-3">doi:10.1016/0370-2693(83)91230-3</a>)</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/3d+gravity">3d gravity</a> as a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Chern-Simons+theory">Chern-Simons theory</a> and its <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/holography">holographic</a> relation to a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/2d+CFT">2d CFT</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/boundary+field+theory">boundary field theory</a> (well before <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/AdS%2FCFT">AdS/CFT</a> was conceived from <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/string+theory">string theory</a>):</p> <ul> <li>A. Achucarro, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>A Chern-Simons Action for Three-Dimensional anti-De Sitter Supergravity Theories</em>, Phys. Lett. B180 (1986) 89 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(86)90140-1">doi:10.1016/0370-2693(86)90140-1</a>, <a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/21208">spire:21208</a>)</li> </ul> <p>Understanding <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/extended+supersymmetry">extended supersymmetry</a>-<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+Lie+algebras">algebras</a> as <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Lie+algebra+extension">extension</a> by <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Noether%27s+theorem">Noether</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/conserved+charge">charges</a> of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/probe+brane">probe brane</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/sigma-models">sigma-models</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="AGIT89"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jos%C3%A9+de+Azc%C3%A1rraga">José de Azcárraga</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jerome+Gauntlett">Jerome Gauntlett</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jos%C3%A9+M.+Izquierdo">José M. Izquierdo</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>: <em>Topological Extensions of the Supersymmetry Algebra for Extended Objects</em>, Phys. Rev. Lett. <strong>63</strong> (1989) 2443 [<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.2443">doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.2443</a>, <a href="https://inspirehep.net/record/26393?ln=en">spire:26393</a>]</li> </ul> <p>Understanding <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+p-brane">super p-brane</a>-species as classified by the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Lie+algebra+cohomology">Lie algebra cohomology</a> of their <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/target+spacetime">target</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super-Minkowski+spacetime">super-Minkowski spacetime</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+Lie+algebras">super Lie algebras</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="AzcarragaTownsend89"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jos%C3%A9+de+Azc%C3%A1rraga">José de Azcárraga</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>: <em>Superspace geometry and the classification of supersymmetric extended objects</em>, Physical Review Letters <strong>62</strong> 22 (1989) [<a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2579">doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2579</a>, <a href="http://inspirehep.net/record/284635">spire:284635</a>]</li> </ul> <p>Early discussion of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/duality+between+type+IIA+string+theory+and+M-theory">duality between type IIA string theory and M-theory</a> in view of <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/double+dimensional+reduction">double dimensional reduction</a> of the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M2-brane">M2-brane</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+K.+Townsend">Paul K. Townsend</a>, <em>The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited</em>, Phys. Lett. B <strong>350</strong> (1995) 184-187 [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9501068">arXiv:hep-th/9501068</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0370-2693(95)00397-4">doi:10.1016/0370-2693(95)00397-4</a>]</li> </ul> <p>On centrally extended <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/supersymmetry">supersymmetry</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+Lie+algebras">super Lie algebras</a> in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/string+theory">string theory</a>, such as the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M-theory+super+Lie+algebra">M-theory super Lie algebra</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="Townsend95"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>p</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">p</annotation></semantics></math>-Brane Democracy</em>, in: <em><a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/431132">Particles, strings and cosmology</a></em> Proceedings, 19th Johns Hopkins Workshop and 5th PASCOS Interdisciplinary Symposium, Baltimore, USA, March 22-25 (1995) [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9507048">arXiv:hep-th/9507048</a>, <a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/397058">spire:397058</a>]</p> <p>reprinted in: <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Michael+Duff">Michael Duff</a> (ed.), <em><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/The+World+in+Eleven+Dimensions">The World in Eleven Dimensions</a></em>, IoP (1999) 375-389</p> </li> <li id="Townsend97a"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>M(embrane) theory on <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>T</mi> <mn>0</mn></msup></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">T^0</annotation></semantics></math></em>, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. <strong>68</strong> (1998) 11-16 [<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00136-4">doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00136-4</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9708034">arXiv:hep-th/9708034</a>]</p> </li> <li id="Townsend97b"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>: <em>M-theory from its superalgebra</em>, in <em>Strings, Branes and Dualities</em>, NATO ASI Series <strong>520</strong>, Springer (1999) [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9712004">arXiv:hep-th/9712004</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_5">doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_5</a>]</p> </li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/black+brane">black</a><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mspace width="thinmathspace"></mspace></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">\,</annotation></semantics></math><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D8-brane">D8-brane</a>-solutions in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/massive+type+IIA+supergravity">massive type IIA supergravity</a>/<a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/massive+type+IIA+string+theory">massive type IIA string theory</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="BergshoessdeRooGreenPapadopoulosTownsend96"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Eric+Bergshoeff">Eric Bergshoeff</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Mees+de+Roo">Mees de Roo</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Michael+Green">Michael Green</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/George+Papadopoulos">George Papadopoulos</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Duality of Type II 7-branes and 8-branes</em>, Nucl. Phys. B470:113-135, 1996 (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9601150">arXiv:hep-th/9601150</a>)</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M2-M5-brane+bound+states">M2-M5-brane bound states</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="ILPT95"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jos%C3%A9+M.+Izquierdo">José M. Izquierdo</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Neil+Lambert">Neil Lambert</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/George+Papadopoulos">George Papadopoulos</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Dyonic Membranes</em>, Nucl. Phys. 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Lett. B430 (1998) 231-236 (<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803040">arXiv:hep-th/9803040</a>)</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/black+holes">black holes</a> in <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D%3D5+supergravity">D=5 supergravity</a>:</p> <ul> <li id="GauntlettMyersTownsend98"><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Jerome+Gauntlett">Jerome Gauntlett</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Robert+C.+Myers">Robert C. Myers</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Black Holes of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mi>D</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">D=5</annotation></semantics></math> Supergravity</em>, Class.Quant.Grav. <strong>16</strong> (1999) 1-21 [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9810204">arXiv:hep-th/9810204</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/16/1/001">doi:10.1088/0264-9381/16/1/001</a>]</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+p-brane">super p-brane</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/sigma+models">sigma models</a> perturbed around the <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/asymptotic+boundary">asymptotic boundary</a> of their own <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/black+brane">black brane</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/near+horizon+geometry">near horizon geometry</a> (related to <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/AdS-CFT+duality">AdS-CFT duality</a>):</p> <ul> <li id="ClausKalloshProeyen97"> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Piet+Claus">Piet Claus</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Renata+Kallosh">Renata Kallosh</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Antoine+Van+Proeyen">Antoine Van Proeyen</a>, <em>M 5-brane and superconformal <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy="false">(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>2</mn><mo stretchy="false">)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">(0,2)</annotation></semantics></math> tensor multiplet in 6 dimensions</em>, Nucl. Phys. B <strong>518</strong> (1998) 117-150 [<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711161">arXiv:hep-th/9711161</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00137-0">doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00137-0</a>]</p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Piet+Claus">Piet Claus</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Renata+Kallosh">Renata Kallosh</a>, J. Kumar, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+K.+Townsend">Paul K. Townsend</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Antoine+Van+Proeyen">Antoine Van Proeyen</a>, <em>Conformal Theory of M2, D3, M5 and “D1+D5” Branes</em>, JHEP 9806 (1998) 004 [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9801206">arXiv:hep-th/9801206</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/1998/06/004">doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/06/004</a>]</p> </li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D-brane+polarization">D-brane polarization</a> into <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/supertubes">supertubes</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/David+Mateos">David Mateos</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Supertubes</em>, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001) 011602 (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103030">arXiv:hep-th/0103030</a>)</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/higher+curvature+corrections">higher curvature corrections</a> to <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/D%3D11+supergravity">D=11 supergravity</a> and <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M-theory+on+G%E2%82%82-manifolds">M-theory on G₂-manifolds</a>:</p> <ul> <li> <p>H. Lu, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Christopher+Pope">Christopher Pope</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Kellogg+Stelle">Kellogg Stelle</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Supersymmetric Deformations of <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" class="maruku-mathml"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>G</mi> <mn>2</mn></msub></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">G_2</annotation></semantics></math> Manifolds from Higher-Order Corrections to String and M-Theory</em>, JHEP 0410:019, 2004 (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312002">arXiv:hep-th/0312002</a>)</p> </li> <li> <p>H. Lu, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Christopher+Pope">Christopher Pope</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Kellogg+Stelle">Kellogg Stelle</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>String and M-theory Deformations of Manifolds with Special Holonomy</em>, JHEP 0507:075, 2005 (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410176">arXiv:hep-th/0410176</a>)</p> </li> </ul> <p>On open <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M5-branes">M5-branes</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/intersecting+brane">intersecting</a> <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M9-branes">M9-branes</a> in a <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Yang+monopole">Yang monopole</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Eric+Bergshoeff">Eric Bergshoeff</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Gary+Gibbons">Gary Gibbons</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Open M5-branes</em>, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97:231601 2006 (<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0607193">arXiv:hep-th/0607193</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.231601">doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.231601</a>)</li> </ul> <p>On <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/supersymmetry+and+division+algebras">supersymmetry and division algebras</a>, the corresponding <a href="twistor+space#TwistorSpace">twistor space</a> and its <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/anti+de+Sitter+spacetime">AdS</a> version:</p> <ul> <li><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Alex+Arvanitakis">Alex Arvanitakis</a>, Alec E. Barns-Graham, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Paul+Townsend">Paul Townsend</a>, <em>Twistor description of spinning particles in AdS</em>, JHEP 01 (2018) 059 (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09557">arXiv:1710.09557</a>)</li> </ul> <h2 id="related_entries">Related entries</h2> <ul> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/string+theory">string theory</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M-theory">M-theory</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/Green-Schwarz+super+p-brane">Green-Schwarz super p-brane</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+1-brane+in+3d">super 1-brane in 3d</a>, <a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/super+2-brane+in+4d">super 2-brane in 4d</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a class="existingWikiWord" href="/nlab/show/M-theory+super+Lie+algebra">M-theory super Lie algebra</a></p> </li> </ul> <div class="property">category: <a class="category_link" href="/nlab/all_pages/people">people</a></div></body></html> </div> <div class="revisedby"> <p> Last revised on November 10, 2024 at 08:58:16. 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