Brane-Wor(l)ds within Brans-Dicke Gravity

Abstract

We review some recent results obtained from the application of the Gauss-Codazzi formalism to brane-worlds models in the Brans-Dicke gravity. The cases of 4-branes embedded in a six-dimensional with and without ${\mathbb{Z}}_2$ symmetry are both analyzed.

10 pages. Invited contribution to the Special Issue "The Problems of Modern Cosmology", on the occasion of Prof. S. D. Odintsov's 50th birthday