Stability of vector measures and twisted sums of Banach spaces

Abstract: A Banach space $X$ is said to have the $\mathsf{SVM}$ (stability of vector measures) property if there exists a constant $v<\infty$ such that for any algebra of sets $\mathcal F$, and any function $\nu\colon\mathcal F\to X$ satisfying $$|\nu(A\cup B)-\nu(A)-\nu(B)|\leq 1\quad{for disjoint}A,B\in\mathcal F,$$there is a vector measure $\mu\colon\mathcal F\to X$ with $|\nu(A)-\mu(A)|\leq v$ for all $A\in\mathcal F$. If this condition is valid when restricted to set algebras $\mathcal F$ of cardinality less than some fixed cardinal number $\kappa$, then we say that $X$ has the $\kappa$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ property. The least cardinal $\kappa$ for which $X$ does not have the $\kappa$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ property (if it exists) is called the $\mathsf{SVM}$ character of $X$. We apply the machinery of twisted sums and quasi-linear maps to characterise these properties and to determine $\mathsf{SVM}$ characters for many classical Banach spaces. We also discuss connections between the $\kappa$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ property, $\kappa$-injectivity and the `three-space' problem.