TURKISH JOURNAL OF PHYSICS, cilt.30, sa.5, ss.401-405, 2006 (ESCI)
We present the effective field equations obtained from a generalized gravity action with Euler-Poincare term and a cosmological constant in a D dimensional bulk space-time. A class of plane-symmetric solutions that describe a 3-brane world embedded in a D = 5 dimensional bulk space-time are given.