Primitive stability and the Bowditch conditions revisited

Abstract: The equivalence of two conditions on the primitive elements in an $SL(2,\mathbb C)$ representation of the free group $F_2 = <a,b>$, namely Minsky's condition of primitive stability and the $BQ$-conditions introduced by Bowditch and generalised by Tan, Wong and Zhang, has been proved by Lee and Xu and independently by the author in arXiv:1901.01396. This note is a revised version of our original proof, which is greatly simplified by incorporating some of the ideas introduced by Lee and Xu, combined with the language of the Bowditch tree.