Alexis Marchand
アレクシ・マルシャン

IM PAN / Universität Regensburg

amarchand@impan.pl

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About me

I am a mathematician, employed as an Adiunkt (Assistant Professor) at IM PAN, Warsaw, in the NCN Maestro Project Analysis on Groups of Piotr Nowak, and (for the summer of 2026) as a Humboldt Fellow at Universität Regensburg, in the group of Clara Löh.

Before that, I was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyōto University, working with Kōji Fujiwara. I completed my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2024, under the supervision of Henry Wilton. My research is in geometric group theory, a field concerned with understanding groups — algebraic structures encoding the symmetries of mathematical objects — by studying their actions on geometric spaces. I am generally interested in understanding connections between group-theoretical structure and non-positive curvature. Here is a poster explaining my research on stable commutator length.

Together with Piotr Nowak, Mark Pengitore, and Arturo Espinosa Baro, I am organising the Analytic and geometric group theory seminar at IM PAN. Please feel free to send me an email if you would like to give a talk!

数学者です。 2025年からポーランドの国立数学研究所で助教としてPiotr Nowak先生と働いています。 2026年の夏、レーゲンスブルク大学でHumboldt FellowとしてClara Löh先生と研究滞在しています。 2025年まで、京都大学で一年間研究員として働きました。藤原耕二先生にお世話になりました。ケンブリッジ大学では、Henry Wilton先生の指導のもと2024年に博士課程を卒業しました。専門分野は幾何学的群論です。ぜひ、日本語で話しかけてください！

Keywords: stable commutator length, bounded cohomology, quasimorphisms, topology of surfaces, hyperbolicity, CAT(0) cube complexes, group rings, free group automorphisms.

CV: in English • 日本語で

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Papers

Research articles (published / accepted in peer-reviewed journals)

From letter-quasimorphisms to angle structures and spectral gaps for scl, Israel J. Math. (online first) • arXiv
Bavard duality for the relative Gromov seminorm, Enseign. Math., 2026 • arXiv
Isometric embeddings of surfaces for scl, Groups Geom. Dyn., 2025 • arXiv
Free representations of outer automorphism groups of free products via characteristic abelian coverings, J. Group Theory, 2023 • arXiv

Expository articles

(with Rémi Coulon) Growth and co-growth in negatively curved groups, in Dahmani, Erschler, Horbez, Wise (eds.), Groups acting on fractals, hyperbolicity and auto-similarity, Panoramas et Synthèses 63, 2025
Makers of patterns: from Escher to Coxeter, Eureka 66, 2020
Géométrie des groupes et courbure négative, Journal de Mathématiques des Élèves de l'ENS de Lyon IV, 2020

Theses and dissertations

Computations and lower bounds for scl and the relative Gromov seminorm, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2024
Automorphismes extérieurs de produits libres : revêtements abéliens caractéristiques et représentations libres, Master's thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2021
Rigidity theorems for hyperbolic groups, Part III essay, University of Cambridge, 2020
Topology of complex affine varieties, Master's research internship report, IMPA (Rio de Janeiro), 2019
Geometry of Coxeter groups, Bachelor's research internship report, KIT (Karlsruhe), 2018

Miscellaneous notes

Notes on topics related to group theory

L2-Betti numbers • These are notes from a reading group that I organised at Kyōto University.
Generalisations of hyperbolicity • These are notes from a reading group that I organised at the University of Cambridge, whose goal was to learn about relative, hierarchical, and acylindrical hyperbolicity.
The Higman Embedding Theorem • Notes from a talk for a reading group on the Boone–Higman Conjecture, organised by Francesco Fournier-Facio.
The Stallings–Swan Theorem • Notes from a talk for a reading group on ends of groups, organised by Julian Wykowski.
The Loop & Sphere Theorems • Notes from a talk for a reading group on 3-manifolds, organised by Will Cohen.

Lecture notes

During my Bachelor's and Master's studies, I typed lecture notes for the courses I attended. I am making them available here in the hope that they will be useful to others. Please note that they may not reflect the contents of the courses, as I have made some modifications. In particular, all the responsibility for mistakes is mine.

Lycée Louis-le-Grand - MPSI/MP* • Mathématiques (première année) • Mathématiques (deuxième année) • Physique (première année) • Chimie (première année)
ENS Lyon - L3 - First term • Algèbre 1 • Analyse Complexe • Topologie et Calcul Différentiel • Intégration et Mesure
ENS Lyon - L3 - Second term • Algèbre 2 • Équations aux Dérivées Partielles • Calcul Différentiel 2 • Intégration et Probabilités • Groupe Fondamental et Revêtements • Nombres p-adiques
ENS Lyon - M1 - First term • Advanced Algebra • Advanced Analysis • Advanced Geometry • Advanced Probability
ENS Lyon - M1 - Second term • Algebraic Geometry • Géométrie Différentielle • Number Theory • Riemann Surfaces
University of Cambridge - Part III - Michaelmas • Algebraic Topology • Category Theory • Mapping Class Groups • Percolation and Related Topics
University of Cambridge - Part III - Lent • Metric Embeddings • Profinite Groups • Approximate Group Actions and Ulam Stability • Geometric Group Theory
Université Grenoble Alpes - M2 • Algorithmic Topology and Groups • Hyperbolic Geometry and Discrete Groups • Hyperbolicities in Discrete Groups

Talk recordings

Spectral gaps for stable commutator length via angle structures • 14 Nov 2025, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge
Longueur stable des commutateurs, surfaces et rationalité • 14 Nov 2024, Séminaire Virtuel Francophone Groupes et Géométrie

Teaching resources

Colles de mathématiques (supervisions in the French preparatory class system)
French as a foreign language