© 2020 World Scientific Publishing Company. We use the Chern-Simons action for a (3)-connection for the description of point disclinations in the geometric theory of defects. The most general spherically symmetric ...

© 2020 World Scientific Publishing Company. The 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole solution in Yang-Mills theory is given new physical interpretation in the geometric theory of defects. It describes solids with continuous distribution ...