Stable equilibria-a reformulation. II. Discussion of the definition, and further results

For pt.I see ibid., vol.14, no.4, p.575-625 (1989). This paper discusses the geometric content of the definition, showing in particular the algebraic distinctions to matter. It provides an equivalent definition that gets rid of the need to use Hausdorff limits, and finally it shows that a decomposition axiom eliminates most of the algebraic possibilities, leaving only the /b p/-stable sets, for /b p / zero or prime.