Math accents

LaTeX provides a variety of commands for producing accented letters in math. These are different from accents in normal text (see Accents).

\acute ¶

Math acute accent

\bar ¶

Math bar-over accent

\breve ¶

Math breve accent

\check ¶

Math háček (check) accent

\ddot ¶

Math dieresis accent

\dot ¶

Math dot accent

\grave ¶

Math grave accent

\hat ¶

Math hat (circumflex) accent

\mathring ¶

Math ring accent

\tilde ¶

Math tilde accent

\vec ¶

Math vector symbol

\widehat ¶

Math wide hat accent

\widetilde ¶

Math wide tilde accent

When you are putting an accent on an i or a j, the tradition is to use one without a dot, \imath or jmath (see Math symbols).