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Stability of vector measures and twisted sums of Banach spaces

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 $ν\colon\mathcal F\to X$ satisfying $$\|ν(A\cup B)-ν(A)-ν(B)\|\leq 1\quad{for disjoint}A,B\in\mathcal F,$$there is a vector measure $μ\colon\mathcal F\to X$ with $\|ν(A)-μ(A)\|\leq v$ 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 $κ$, then we say that $X$ has the $κ$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ property. The least cardinal $κ$ for which $X$ does not have the $κ$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ 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 $κ$-$\mathsf{SVM}$ property, $κ$-injectivity and the `three-space' problem.