Paul Townsend

28.4k citations
236 papers · 14.3k · 3 hit papers · h-index 66

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Paul Townsend

233 papers receiving 13.8k citations

Hit Papers

Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions 2009 · 536 citations
5360+13+26Years since publication200400600

Peers

Paul Townsend
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  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 13.3k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 7.7k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 9.0k
  • Geometry and Topology 1.3k
  • Algebra and Number Theory 442
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Paul Townsend, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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A Chern-Simons action for three-dimensional anti-de Sitter supergravity theories
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1986696
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Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions
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2009536
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Supermembranes and eleven-dimensional supergravity
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1987465
4 1984384
5 1999265
6 1981255
7 1997253
8 1988251
9 1984243
10 1985231
11 2009224
12 1996220
13 1983207
14 1978199
15 1984190
16 1983183
17 1999181
18 1995174
19 2003166
20 2020165

About Paul Townsend

Paul Townsend is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Geometry and Topology, having authored 236 papers that have together received 14.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (200 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (107 papers), Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (104 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (56 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (33 papers), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (21 papers), Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (16 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (13.3k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (7.7k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (9.0k citations), Geometry and Topology (1.3k citations) and Algebra and Number Theory (442 citations). Paul Townsend has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Eric Bergshoeff, P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Germán Sierra, Ana Achúcarro, Paul Howe, Murat Günaydin, Ergin Sezgin, Olaf Hohm, G. W. Gibbons and Kostas Skenderis. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Letters B, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of High Energy Physics, Physical Review Letters and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

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