Phase transitions, shadows, and microstructure of Reissner-Nordström-Anti-de-Sitter black holes from a geometrothermodynamic perspective

We study the thermodynamic properties of the Reissner-Nordström black hole with cosmological constant, expressed in terms of the curvature radius, using the approach of shadow thermodynamics and the formalism of geometrothermodynamics. We derive explicit expressions for the shadow radius in terms of the horizon, photon sphere, and observer radii. The phase transition structure turns out to strongly depend on the value of the curvature radius, including configurations with zero, one, or two phase transitions. We also analyze the black hole's microscopic structure and find differences between the approaches of thermodynamic geometry and geometrothermodynamics, which are due to the presence of the curvature radius. We impose the important condition that the black hole is a quasi-homogeneous thermodynamic system to guarantee the consistency of the geometrothermodynamic approach.