def on_separate_dimensions(self):
        """
        Checks whether the kernels in the combination act on disjoint subsets
        of dimensions. Currently, it is hard to asses whether two slice objects
        will overlap, so this will always return False.
        :return: Boolean indicator.
        """
        if np.any([isinstance(k.active_dims, slice) for k in self.kernels]):
            # Be conservative in the case of a slice object
            return False
        else:
            dimlist = [k.active_dims for k in self.kernels]
            overlapping = False
            for i, dims_i in enumerate(dimlist):
                for dims_j in dimlist[i + 1:]:
                    if np.any(dims_i.reshape(-1, 1) == dims_j.reshape(1, -1)):
                        overlapping = True
            return not overlapping