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Abstract

We develop extended black-hole thermodynamics on a Dvali--Gabadadze--Porrati (DGP) brane by promoting the brane tension \(\sigma\) to a thermodynamic variable within the extended Iyer--Wald framework. The brane tension acts as a localized vacuum energy with pressure \(P_\sigma \equiv -\sigma\), yielding a new work term \(V_\sigma\,\mathrm{d}P_\sigma\) in the first law and the corresponding Smarr relation. For static, spherically symmetric black holes we show that the conjugate volume equals the geometric volume \(V_\sigma=\tfrac{4\pi}{3}r_h^3\); for stationary, axisymmetric solutions it admits a covariant, slice-independent definition and evaluates to \(V_\sigma=\tfrac{4\pi}{3}\!\left(r_+^3+a^2 r_+\right)\). Working on the ghost-free normal branch, the brane is asymptotically flat with a single horizon, so the construction avoids de Sitter obstructions. Along a flat-brane path, asymptotic flatness is preserved by co-varying the bulk cosmological constant, and induced-gravity effects are suppressed by \(r_h/r_c\). These results establish a consistent flat-braneworld realization of black-hole chemistry in which brane tension provides the physically motivated pressure variable.