TITLE: iterating ultrapowers of C*-algebras: the Calkin algebra
QUESTION [6 upvotes]: Elsewhere I asked about ultrapowers of the C*-algebra $A$ of compact operators on separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. My question was whether the process of taking ultrapowers of ultrapowers ever stabilizes. 
It was pointed out that the definition of an ultrapower of a C*-algebra is slightly different from the usual definition of an ultrapower; that the process never stabilizes in the sense that the canonical embedding is never an isomorphism; but that nevertheless (assuming CH) that if $A^1$ is an ultrapower of $A$ then the ultrapowers of $A^1$ are isomorphic as C*-algebras to $A^1$.
This last statement depends on the fact $A$ is separable. Here I would like to ask about the corresponding question for the C*-algebra $B$ of bounded operators on Hilbert space and also for the Calkin algebra $C=B/A$. Does the process of taking ultrapowers of ultrapowers of $B$ ever stabilize in the sense of producing isomorphic C*-algebras? And the same question for $C$?

REPLY [11 votes]: The statement does not depend on separability of A. Actually in the Ge-Hadwin paper they explicitly state the result for C*-algebras of cardinality continuum. So under CH you have
that the ultrapowers of C^1 are isomorphic to C^1. 
It is not completely trivial that C is not isomorphic to C^1. 
This was proved in 
    arXiv:1112.3898 Countable saturation of corona algebras. Ilijas Farah, Bradd Hart.
Also, if CH fails then every C*-algebra has 2^c nonisomorphic ultrapowers, so the 
sequence does not stabilize. This is in 
    arXiv:0908.2790 Model theory of operator algebras I: Stability. Ilijas Farah, Bradd Hart, David Sherman.