Localized gravity and mass hierarchy in D=6 with the Gauss-Bonnet term
Abstract
We obtain the localized gravity on the intersection of two orthogonal non-solitonic or solitonic 4-branes in D=6 in the presence of the Gauss-Bonnet term. The tension of the intersection is allowed to exist unlike the case without the Gauss-Bonnet term. We show that gravity could be confined to the solitonic 4-branes for a particular choice of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling. If the extra dimensions are compactified with the T2/(Z2× Z2) orbifold symmetry, the mass hierarchy between the Planck scale and the weak scale can be explained by putting our universe at the TeV intersection of positive tension located at the orbifold fixed point.
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