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Sasha A. Zaldivar

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Geometrothermodynamics of Black Hole Shadows: A Review

Black-hole shadows and geometrothermodynamics (GTD) are defined in different spaces but depend on the same macroscopic black-hole parameters. We review their correspondence for Reissner--Nordström (RN), Kerr, and Kerr--AdS black holes. The three GTD metrics reveal complementary thermodynamic structures, including Davies instabilities, extremal and degenerate limits, and regular curvature zeros, which can be mapped to shadow configurations. Kerr--AdS extends this correspondence to asymmetric shadows and multidimensional equilibrium states. We formulate a local Jacobian-rank criterion for thermodynamic reconstruction from shadow observables and discuss shadow--microstructure (SM) diagrams as optical representations of GTD-classified equilibrium states. The application to Sagittarius A* illustrates the inverse problem: shadow observations constrain thermodynamic states and provide a basis for identifying additional metric-dependent observables that could distinguish among the GTD metric structures.

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Geometric Universality and Thermodynamic Microstructure of Real Fluids in a Unified Entropic Framework

We introduce a unified entropic framework for real fluids that encompasses the van der Waals, Berthelot, Redlich Kwong, and Peng Robinson equations of state within a common thermodynamic description. The corresponding microscopic interactions are then explored using Geometrothermodynamics, GTD, through the scalar curvature $mathcal{R}$ of the equilibrium manifold. We show that curvature singularities accurately reproduce macroscopic critical phenomena, while vanishing curvature $\mathcal{R}=0$ identifies specific thermodynamic states where attractive and repulsive intermolecular forces effectively balance. Furthermore, we introduce a set of dimensionless critical-amplitude ratios $Q^i_{j}$, which reveal universal geometric features of the critical regime. Although individual critical amplitudes exhibit a logarithmic dependence on the system size, these invariant ratios organize different molecular species according to the strength of criticality and encode universal scaling features, suggesting their potential as robust classification parameters. Finally, employing Bayesian inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo, MCMC methods, we statistically reconstruct the zero-curvature curves. The posterior distributions support the consistency of the geometric scaling behavior, demonstrating that the GTD manifold encodes non-trivial information about the underlying thermodynamical models.

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Ideal quantum gases: A geometrothermodynamic approach

We derive the fundamental thermodynamic equation for Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein quantum gases, which contains the first order contribution due to the quantum nature of the gas particles. Then, we analyze the fundamental equation in the context of geometrothermodynamics. Although the corresponding Hamiltonian does not contain a potential, indicating the lack of classical thermodynamic interaction, we show that the curvature of the equilibrium space is non-zero and can be interpreted as a measure of the effective quantum interaction between the gas particles. In the limiting case of a classical Boltzmann gas, we show that the equilibrium space becomes flat, as expected from the physical viewpoint. In addition, we derive a thermodynamic fundamental equation for the Bose-Einstein condensation and, using the Ehrenfest scheme, we show that it can be considered as a first order phase transition which in the equilibrium space corresponds to a curvature singularity. This result indicates that the curvature of the equilibrium space can be used to measure in an invariant way the thermodynamic interaction in classical and quantum ideal gases.

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