New brane solutions in higher-order gravity

Abstract We consider the higher-order gravity with dilaton and with the leading string theory corrections taken into account. The domain wall type solutions are investigated for arbitrary number of space–time dimensions. The explicit formulae for the fixed points and asymptotic behavior of generic solutions are given. We analyze and classify solutions with finite effective gravitational constant. There is a class of such solutions which have no singularities. We discuss in detail the relation between fine tuning and self-tuning and clarify in which sense our solutions are fine-tuning-free. The stability of such solutions is also discussed.