We discuss the infinite dimension limit of the Hubbard model by means of a perturbative expansion of the one-particle Green’s function around the atomic limit. The diagrammatic structure is simplified in this limit, allowing a formal resummation that reproduces a previously proposed mapping to a single-site mean-field problem. The method provides a natural way of addressing this effective problem by means of a perturbative expansion in the local mean field. This gives the correct exact result for the Falicov-Kimball model, which is used as a starting point to study the Hubbard case
