Paul Townsend is professor for theoretical physics at Cambridge.
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):
On D=7 supergravity (as gauged supergravity):
Early discussion of the duality between type IIA string theory and M-theory in view of double dimensional reduction of the M2-brane:
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 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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