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Thermodynamic Topology and Photon Spheres Analysis of Black Holes in Brane-World: Insights from Barrow Entropy

arXiv:2603.00916 · doi:10.1007/s10714-026-03534-1

Abstract

We explore the thermodynamics and geothermodynamics of black holes with Barrow entropy in a brane-world scenario, where the horizon geometry of the black hole is regarded as a fractal structure. Our analysis reveals the behavior of heat capacity, identifying both bound and divergence points. For the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, the divergence point exhibits smooth behavior, indicating no phase transition. In contrast, we observe divergence with Barrow entropy as the deformation parameter increases, confirming the presence of a zero point in heat capacity through various thermodynamic geometry formalisms. Additionally, we delve into thermodynamic topology, detailing the classification of black holes in the brane-world context and comparing their characteristics determined from the Bekenstein-Hawking and the Barrow entropy. Notably, fixing the deformation and cosmological parameters results in a topological charge predominately by the dark matter parameter, which remains unaffected despite variations in other parameters. In the dS model, the cosmological horizon prevents stable photon spheres, making topological charges of and unattainable. Incremental increases in the cosmological parameter reduce the dark matter parameter-dominated region.

19 pages, 8 figures, version accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation