Consistency conditions for brane worlds in arbitrary dimensions

We consider "brane world sum rules" for compactifications involving an arbi trary number of spacetime dimensions. One of the most striking results deri ved from such consistency conditions is the necessity for negative tension branes to appear in five-dimensional scenarios. We show how this result is easily evaded for brane world models with more than five dimensions. As an example, we consider a novel realization of the Randall-Sundrum scenario in six dimensions involving only positive tension branes.