Geometrothermodynamics of black holes in Lovelock gravity with a nonlinear electrodynamics

The objective of the present paper is to analyze the phase transition of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) black-hole solutions in Lovelock gravity in the presence of nonlinear electrodynamics. First, we present the asymptotically AdS black-hole solutions for two classes of the Born-Infeld type of nonlinear electrodynamics coupled (separately) with Einstein, Gauss-Bonnet, and third-order Lovelock gravity. Then, in order to discuss the phase transition, we calculate both the heat capacity and the Ricci scalar of the thermodynamical line element. We present a comparison between the singular points of the Ricci scalar using the geometrothermodynamics method and the corresponding vanishing points of the heat capacity in the canonical ensemble. In addition, we discuss the effects of both Lovelock and nonlinear electrodynamics on the phase transition points.