This is a readable review of recent work on non-Hermitian bound state problems with complex potentials. A particular example is the generalization of the harmonic oscillator with the potentials: $$V\left(x\right)=\frac{{\omega }^2}{2}{\left(x-\frac{2i\beta }{\omega }\right)}^2-\frac{\omega }{2}.$$ Other examples include complex generalizations of the Morse potential, the spiked radial harmonic potential, the Kratzer-Coulomb potential, the Rosen Morse oscillator and others. Instead of demanding Hermiticity $H=H^{*}$ the condition required is $H=PTHPT$ where $P$ changes the parity and $T$ transforms $i$ to $-i$.

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...

Summary: We give an introduction to the Skyrme model from a mathematical point of view. Hereby, we show that it is difficult to solve the field equation even by means of the classical ansatz, the so-called hedgehog ansatz. Our main result is an extended existence proof for solutions of the field equation in the hedgehog ansatz.