We perform a statistical analysis of models with SU(5) and flipped SU(5) gauge group in a type II orientifold setup. We investigate the distribution and correlation of properties of these models, including the number of generations and the hidden sector gauge group. Compared to the recent analysis hep-th/0510170 of models with a standard model-like gauge group, we find very similar results.

Abstract:We investigate linear perturbations of spin-s fields in the Kerr-AdS black hole and in its near-horizon geometry (NHEK-AdS), using the Teukolsky master equation and the Hertz potential. In the NHEK-AdS geometry we solve the associated angular equation numerically and the radial equation exactly. Having these explicit solutions at hand, we search for linear mode instabilities. We do not find any (non-)axisymmetric instabilities with outgoing boundary conditions. This is in agreement with a recent conjecture relating the linearized stability properties of the full geometry with those of its near-horizon geometry. Moreover, we find that the asymptotic behaviour of the metric perturbations in NHEK-AdS violates the fall-off conditions imposed in the formulation of the Kerr/CFT correspondence (the only exception being the axisymmetric sector of perturbations).

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We numerically construct large Randall-Sundrum II brane black holes in 4 and 5 dimensions from associated AdS/CFT spacetimes. Our solutions are leading order perturbations of a representative of the boundary conformal structure of the AdS spacetime sourced by the dual CFT stress tensor. The 4-dimensional solutions are static perturbations of the Euclidean Schwarzschild metric, while the 5-dimensional solutions are perturbations of the Myers-Perry metric with equal angular momenta. We compare the former with previous numerical results for Randall-Sundrum bulk black holes and find good agreement down to a horizon radius of about r H ∼ 30 . The latter are the first numerical results pertaining to rotating Randall-Sundrum black holes. They have the same entropy, but a larger horizon area than Myers-Perry black holes of the same mass and angular momentum.

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