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Large D gravity and low D strings
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We show that in the limit of a large number of dimensions a wide class of nonextremal neutral black holes has a universal near-horizon limit. The limiting geometry is the two-dimensional black hole of string theory with a two-dimensional target space. Its conformal symmetry explains the properties of massless scalars found recently in the large-D limit. For black branes with string charges, the near-horizon geometry is that of the three-dimensional black strings of Horne and Horowitz. The analogies between the α′ expansion in string theory and the large-D expansion in gravity suggest a possible effective string description of the large-D limit of black holes. We comment on applications to several subjects, in particular to the problem of critical collapse.
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EMPARAN GARCÍA DE SALAZAR, Roberto A., GRUMILLER, Daniel and TANABE, Kentaro. Large D gravity and low D strings. Physical Review Letters. 2013. Vol. 110, num. 251102-1-251102-5. ISSN 0031-9007. [consulted: 6 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/53293