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The notion of relative topological textures — nonuniform states of the general type in condensed (ordered) media — is introduced. For the classification of such states, an effective method is proposed which is based on the topological obstruction theory. The examples of relative topological textures are examined within the framework of the approach studied here.
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Ovid'ko, I.A., Romanov, A.E. Methods of topological obstruction theory in condensed matter physics. Commun.Math. Phys. 105, 443–453 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01205936
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