Non-Hitchin Borel Anosov representations from surface groups to $\mathrm{SL}_{3k}\mathbb{R}$
We use the Labourie--Wentworth's formula and the thermodynamic formalism to show that, along the slice constructed by Bronstein--Davalo, the logarithmic top-eigenvalue length spectrum has a uniformly positive second variation near the Barbot representation. As a major application, we show that every closed surface grou...