Lifting Normal Elements in Nonseparable Calkin Algebras

Abstract

We use the remarkable distance estimate of Ilya Kachkovskiy and Yuri Safarov, to show that if $H$ is a nonseparable Hilbert space and $K$ is any closed ideal in $B(H)$ that is not the ideal of compact operators, then any normal element of $B(H)/K$ can be lifted to a normal element of $B(H)$.