Shape Theories. II. Compactness Selection Principles [article]

Edward Anderson
2019 arXiv   pre-print
Shape(-and-scale) spaces - configuration spaces for generalized Kendall-type Shape(-and-Scale) Theories - are usually not manifolds but stratified manifolds. While in Kendall's own case - similarity shapes - the shape spaces are analytically nice - Hausdorff - for the Image Analysis and Computer Vision cases - affine and projective shapes - they are not: merely Kolmogorov. We now furthermore characterize these results in terms of whether one is staying within, or straying outside of, some
more » ... tness conditions which provide protection for nice analytic behaviour. We furthermore list which of the recent wealth of proposed shape theories lie within these topological-level selection principles for technical tractability. Most cases are not protected, by which the merely-Kolmogorov behaviour may be endemic and the range of technically tractable Shape(-and-Scale) Theories very limited. This is the second of two great bounds on Shape(-and-Scale) Theories, each of which moreover have major implications for the Comparative Theory of Background Independence as per Article III.
arXiv:1811.06528v4 fatcat:fc6vbuehrfbfnglgbf7hjwy2jm