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This article deals with vector valued differential forms on $C^{\infty }$-manifolds. As a generalization of the exterior product, we introduce an operator that combines $Hom({⨂}^s\left(W\right),Z)$-valued forms with $Hom({⨂}^s\left(V\right),W)$-valued forms. We discuss the main properties of this operator such as (multi)linearity, associativity and its behavior under pullbacks, push-outs, exterior differentiation of forms, etc. Finally we present applications for Lie groups and fiber bundles.

The author constructs the gauged Skyrme model by introducing the skyrmion bundle as follows: instead of considering maps $U:M\to {\text{SU}}_{N_F}$ he thinks of the meson fields as of global sections in a bundle $B(M,{\text{SU}}_{N_F},G)=P(M,G){\times }_G{\text{SU}}_{N_F}$. For calculations within the skyrmion bundle the author introduces by means of the so-called equivariant cohomology an analogue of the topological charge and the Wess-Zumino term. The final result of this paper is the following Theorem. For the skyrmion bundle with $N_F\le 6$, one has $$H^{*}\left(EG{\times }_G{\text{SU}}_{N_F}\right)\cong H^{*}{\left({\text{SU}}_{N_F}\right)}^G\cong \text{S}\left({\underline{G}}^{*}\right)\otimes H^{*}\left({\text{SU}}_{N_F}\right)\cong H^{*}\left(BG\right)\otimes H^{*}\left({\text{SU}}_{N_F}\right),$$ where $EG(BG,G)$ is the universal bundle...