Entropy rigidity for cusped Hitchin representations

Abstract We establish an entropy rigidity theorem for Hitchin representations of geometrically finite Fuchsian groups which generalizes a theorem of Potrie and Sambarino for Hitchin representations of closed surface groups. In the process, we introduce the class of (1,1,2)‐hypertransverse groups and show for such a group that the Hausdorff dimension of its conical limit set agrees with its (first) simple root entropy, providing a common generalization of results of Bishop and Jones, for Kleinian groups, and Pozzetti, Sambarino, and Wienhard, for Anosov groups. We also introduce the theory of transverse representations of projectively visible groups as a tool for studying discrete subgroups of linear groups that are not necessarily Anosov or relatively Anosov.