Holographic Neutron Stars
Jan de Boer, Kyriakos Papadodimas, Erik Verlinde

TL;DR
This paper constructs holographic duals of neutron stars in AdS space, analyzing their stability and collapse using gravitational equations, and identifies a limit beyond which collapse occurs.
Contribution
It introduces a method to model degenerate stars holographically and determines the critical mass for gravitational collapse in AdS/CFT context.
Findings
Identification of a Chandrasekhar-like limit in holographic stars
Calculation of back-reaction effects using TOV equations
Prediction of black hole formation beyond the critical mass
Abstract
We construct in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence degenerate composite operators in the conformal field theory that are holographically dual to degenerate stars in anti de Sitter space. We calculate the effect of the gravitational back-reaction using the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations, and determine the "Chandrasekhar limit" beyond which the star undergoes gravitational collapse towards a black hole.
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