Black Hole Critical Collapse in Infinite Dimensions: Continuous Self-Similar Solutions
arXiv:2504.10590 · doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2025)017
Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of black hole critical collapse in the limit of a large number of spacetime dimensions, . In particular, we study the spherical gravitational collapse of a massless, scale-invariant scalar field with continuous self-similarity (CSS). The large number of dimensions provides a natural separation of scales, simplifying the equations of motion at each scale where different effects dominate. With this approximation scheme, we construct matched asymptotic solutions for this family, including the critical solution. We then compute the mass critical exponent of the black hole for linear perturbations that break CSS, finding that it asymptotes to a constant value in infinite dimensions. Additionally, we present a link between these solutions and closed Friedmann--Lemaître--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) cosmologies with a dimension-dependent equation of state and cosmological constant. The critical solution corresponds to an unstable Einstein-like universe, while subcritical and supercritical solutions correspond to bouncing and crunching cosmologies respectively. Our results provide a proof of concept for the large- expansion as a powerful analytic tool in gravitational collapse and suggest potential extensions to other self-similar systems.
94 pages, 23 figures
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