On the regular-convexity of Ricci shrinker limit spaces

Abstract In this paper we study the structure of the pointed-Gromov–Hausdorff limits of sequences of Ricci shrinkers. We define a regular-singular decomposition following the work of Cheeger–Colding for manifolds with a uniform Ricci curvature lower bound, and prove that the regular part of any non-collapsing Ricci shrinker limit space is strongly convex, inspired by Colding–Naber’s original idea of parabolic smoothing of the distance functions.