We prove a strong dichotomy for the number of ultrapowers
of a given model of cardinality <= c associated with
nonprincipal ultrafilters on {N} . They are either all
isomorphic, or else there are 2^c many. We prove the
analogous result for metric structures, including
C^*-algebras and II_1 factors, as well as their relative
commutants
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