A point process is determinantal with kernel relative to a specified reference measure if every correlation function of a point process is the indicated determinant. A rank- finite-rank projection kernel gives an exactly -point process, whose symmetric joint density is .
For , the correlation function of a point process associated with the eigenvalues is
The factorial factor counts ordered selections of distinct eigenvalues, so this is a factorial moment density, rather than the ordinary probability density of particular labels. Equivalently, for a nonnegative measurable test function ,
Repeated projection kernel determinant integration, with , gives a factor on integrating an -by- kernel determinant down to size . Together with the normalizing in , the factors cancel:
In particular and . Set and for . The eigenvalue configuration is thus a determinantal point process with a rank- finite-rank projection kernel.