Numerical evidence for monopoles in 3-dimensional Yang-Mills theory
  Recently Anishetty, Majumdar and Sharatchandra have proposed a way of characterizing topologically non-trivial configurations for 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory in a local and manifestly gauge invariant manner. In this paper paper we develop criteria to locate such objects in lattice gauge theory and find them in numerical simulations. 
Pushan Majumdar and Dong-Shin Shin (Institute of Mathematical   Sciences, Madras)