Paul Townsend is professor for theoretical physics at Cambridge.
Early discussion of the D'Auria-Fré formulation of supergravity:
On D=6 supergravity formulated on superspace:
On spin representations and supersymmetry:
221 2 (1983) 331-348 [doi:10.1016/0550-3213(83)90582-5]
On D=7 supergravity (as gauged supergravity):
On 3d gravity as a Chern-Simons theory and its holographic relation to a 2d CFT boundary field theory (well before AdS/CFT was conceived from string theory):
The original “brane scan” classification of Green-Schwarz action functionals for super p-branes:
Introducing the Green-Schwarz sigma-model-type formulation of the super-membrane in 11D (the M2-brane):
and on the early history of the development:
Understanding extended supersymmetry-algebras as extension by Noether charges of probe brane sigma-models:
Understanding super p-brane-species as classified by the Lie algebra cohomology of their target super-Minkowski spacetime super Lie algebras:
Early discussion of the duality between type IIA string theory and M-theory in view of double dimensional reduction of the M2-brane:
On centrally extended supersymmetry super Lie algebras in string theory, such as the M-theory super Lie algebra:
Paul Townsend, -Brane Democracy, in: Particles, strings and cosmology Proceedings, 19th Johns Hopkins Workshop and 5th PASCOS Interdisciplinary Symposium, Baltimore, USA, March 22-25 (1995) [arXiv:hep-th/9507048, spire:397058]
reprinted in: Michael Duff (ed.), The World in Eleven Dimensions, IoP (1999) 375-389
Paul Townsend, M(embrane) theory on , Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 68 (1998) 11-16 [doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(98)00136-4, arXiv:hep-th/9708034]
Paul Townsend: M-theory from its superalgebra, in Strings, Branes and Dualities, NATO ASI Series 520, Springer (1999) [arXiv:hep-th/9712004, doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_5]
On blackD8-brane-solutions in massive type IIA supergravity/massive type IIA string theory:
José M. Izquierdo, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic Membranes, Nucl. Phys. B 460 (1996) 560-578 [arXiv:hep-th/9508177, doi:10.1016/0550-3213(95)00606-0]
Michael Green, Neil Lambert, George Papadopoulos, Paul Townsend, Dyonic -branes from self-dual -branes, Phys.Lett.B384:86-92, 1996 (arXiv:hep-th/9605146)
On the 3-brane in 6d:
On black holes in D=5 supergravity:
On super p-brane sigma models perturbed around the asymptotic boundary of their own black brane near horizon geometry (related to AdS-CFT duality):
Piet Claus, Renata Kallosh, Antoine Van Proeyen, M 5-brane and superconformal tensor multiplet in 6 dimensions, Nucl. Phys. B 518 (1998) 117-150 [arXiv:hep-th/9711161, doi:10.1016/S0550-3213(98)00137-0]
Piet Claus, Renata Kallosh, J. Kumar, Paul K. Townsend, Antoine Van Proeyen, Conformal Theory of M2, D3, M5 and “D1+D5” Branes, JHEP 9806 (1998) 004 [arXiv:hep-th/9801206, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/1998/06/004]
On D-brane polarization into supertubes:
On higher curvature corrections to D=11 supergravity and M-theory on G₂-manifolds:
H. Lu, Christopher Pope, Kellogg Stelle, Paul Townsend, Supersymmetric Deformations of Manifolds from Higher-Order Corrections to String and M-Theory, JHEP 0410:019, 2004 (arXiv:hep-th/0312002)
H. Lu, Christopher Pope, Kellogg Stelle, Paul Townsend, String and M-theory Deformations of Manifolds with Special Holonomy, JHEP 0507:075, 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0410176)
On open M5-branes intersecting M9-branes in a Yang monopole:
On supersymmetry and division algebras, the corresponding twistor space and its AdS version:
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