Determinantal probability measures on Grassmannians

Abstract

We introduce and study a class of determinantal probability measures generalising the class of discrete determinantal point processes. These measures live on the Grassmannian of a real, complex, or quaternionic inner product space that is split into pairwise orthogonal finite-dimensional subspaces. They are determined by a positive self-adjoint contraction of the inner product space, in a way that is equivariant under the action of the group of isometries that preserve the splitting.