Kaluza–Klein mass spectra on extended dimensional branes

Abstract

We study the hierarchy problem on the four- and five-branes which are constructed by attaching a circle and a sphere to the standard three-brane, respectively. The effective masses in their excited spectra on these extended dimensional branes imply intriguing characteristics associated with the quantization of the compact circular and spherical manifolds. In particular, their lightest effective masses are shown to suppress exponentially with respect to the Planck mass, similar to the three-brane case. We also investigate the effective couplings in these extended dimensional branes.