Siegel Brownian motion

Abstract

We construct an analogue of Dyson Brownian motion in the Siegel half-space H that we term Siegel Brownian motion. Given βin (0,\infty], a stochastic flow for Z_t in H is introduced so that the law of the eigenvalues λ_t of the cross ratio matrix R(Z_t,iI_n) is determined by the Ito differential equation corresponds to stochastic gradient ascent of a function S. S turns out to be the log volume of isospectral orbit in H and can be understood as a Boltzmann entropy. In the limit β=\infty, the group orbits evolve by motion by minus a half times mean curvature.