Non-Singular Screw Dislocations as the Coulomb Gas
with Smoothed-Out Coupling and
the Renormalization of the Shear Modulus
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(see also  
here )
Non-Free Gas of Dipoles of Non-Singular Screw Dislocations and the Shear Modulus Near the Melting
Ann. Phys., Vol. 351 (2014) 22-34
(see also  
here )