Timeline for Is a quotient of real linear algebraic groups always a Cartesian product of compact and contractible factors?

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May 19, 2022 at 17:16	history	edited	Ian Gershon Teixeira	CC BY-SA 4.0	edited title
Dec 29, 2021 at 3:43	history	edited	Ian Gershon Teixeira	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 2 characters in body
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Dec 10, 2021 at 15:47	vote	accept	Ian Gershon Teixeira
Dec 10, 2021 at 15:18	answer	added	Nicolast		timeline score: 7
Dec 10, 2021 at 15:03	history	edited	YCor	CC BY-SA 4.0	rewrote title
Dec 10, 2021 at 14:59	history	edited	Ian Gershon Teixeira	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 32 characters in body; edited title
Dec 10, 2021 at 9:55	comment	added	YCor		Also, "direct product" is a group-theoretic notion, or more generally in the presence of laws to mean that the operations are taken coordinate-wise. For instance for groups, the semidirect product is a non-direct group operation on the Cartesian product. For topological spaces, I think "Cartesian product" is better suited.
Dec 10, 2021 at 7:49	comment	added	YCor		Are you assuming the group field is $\mathbf{C}$? or $\mathbf{R}$? otherwise I'm not sure the question makes sense. Also have in mind that a real algebraic group is not exactly the same as its set of real points.
Dec 10, 2021 at 3:07	history	asked	Ian Gershon Teixeira	CC BY-SA 4.0