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For positive number $C>0$, $d>0$, are the Euler Characteristics of n dimensional closed Riemannian manifolds $M$ with diameter $\leqslant d$, $|Ric|\leqslant C$ uniformly bounded?

If this is false, what about the non-collapsed case? i.e. for $v>0$, consider the class of above manifolds that satisfies $vol(M)\geqslant v$.

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  • $\begingroup$ For your first question, consider the case that $n$ equals $6$. Since we do not know whether there are only finitely many deformation types of Calabi-Yau manifolds of complex dimension $3$, it seems unlikely that we can bound the set of possible Euler characteristics. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 29, 2017 at 14:34
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    $\begingroup$ Probably you aware of this, but let me notice that it was shown by G. Perelman that the connected sum of any number of $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^2$ (which has arbitrarily large Euler characteristic) carries a Riemannian metric with positive Ricci curvature, diameter 1 and volume bounded away from 0. See his paper "Construction of manifolds of positive Ricci curvature with big volume and large Betti numbers" (1997). $\endgroup$
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Without a lower volume bound this is false in dimensions 4 and up (and true in dimensions 2, 3). First counterexamples were constructed by Anderson. It's Theorem 0.4 in "Hausdorff perturbations of Ricci-flat manifolds and the splitting theorem".

You can take a sequence of flat tori of the form $T^3\times S^1(\epsilon)$ with $\epsilon\to 0$ and do several surgeries along various $p\times S^1(\epsilon)$ by cutting out $D^3\times S^1$ and gluing back in $S^2\times D^2$. One can put almost Ricci flat metrics on the resulting manifolds by gluing in Schwarzschild Ricci flat metrics on $R^2\times S^2$ because a Schwarzschild metric is asymptotic to $R^3\times S^1$. As $\epsilon\to 0$ you can glue in arbitrary many of these. With a lower volume bound the statement is true in dimension 4 by Andrerson-Cheeger-Naber "Regularity of Einstein Manifolds and the Codimension 4 Conjecture". In fact, there is even diffeomorphism finiteness in this case. In dimensions above 4 as far as I know this is an open question but I would guess it's most likely false.

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