Voiculescu's Theorem for Nonseparable C*-algebras

Abstract

We prove that Voiculescu's noncommutative version of the Weyl-von Neumann theorem can be extended to all (not necessarily separable) unital, separably representable C*-algebras whose density character is strictly smaller than $\mathfrak{p}$. We show moreover that Voiculescu's theorem consistently does not generalize to C*-algebras of larger density character.