Math & Science ⇒ Correct Alignment for Lorentz Indices

[kylezak]

I am new to LaTeX, just a small question.

How do you put Lorentz indices so that they are not right one above the other?

I need them to be spaced e.g. if I put a_\mu ^\nu, they would appear on top of each other without any spacing.

[hugovdberg]

I'm guessing you want the superscript to be to the right of the subscript, this could be accomplished like this:

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${a_\mu}^\nu$

The brackets make the superscript to be aligned next to the combination in stead of the previous symbol (in this case a)

[cgnieder]

Hi kylezak,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

You might be interested in the tensor package:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tensor}
\begin{document}

\[ \tensor{a}{^\mu_\nu} \]

\end{document}

Regards

[hugovdberg]

The tensor package is quite nice indeed, at least if you want to keep the indices all aligned. However, to achieve that, wouldn't that mean you will have to replace all regular indices with the tensor commands?

[kylezak]

Thank you guys for your replies!