%0 Journal Article %T Janossy densities for Unitary ensembles at the spectral edge %A Brian Rider %A Xin Zhou %J Mathematics %D 2007 %I arXiv %X For a broad class of unitary ensembles of random matrices we demonstrate the universal nature of the Janossy densities of eigenvalues near the spectral edge, providing a different formulation of the probability distributions of the limiting second, third, etc. largest eigenvalues of the ensembles in question. The approach is based on a representation of the Janossy densities in terms of a system of orthogonal polynomials, plus the steepest descent method of Deift and Zhou for the asymptotic analysis of the associated Riemann-Hilbert problem. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0921v2