Holographic Neutron Stars
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-11-12 v3
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.2695,
title = {Holographic Neutron Stars},
author = {Jan de Boer and Kyriakos Papadodimas and Erik Verlinde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2695},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, pdflatex. Typos and cross reference corrected, discussion clarified