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Abstract

Taking the limit of a large number of spatial dimensions is a familiar technique in statistical mechanics but, until recently, seldom used in gravity. In this review its use is described in black hole physics, and, through the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, in condensed matter physics and fluid mechanics.

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