# Formatting of \bigwedge in display math mode

I posted an answer on math.se here and in there I used double dollar mode. Now in that mode, I had

\bigwedge^ \hspace{1mm} k V


but upon rendering it looks weird like

How can I bring the k closer to the big wedge so that it looks more normal like in single dollar mode? In single dollar mode, we have $\bigwedge^k V$ looking a lot more natural.

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Does this concern a document printed with TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt or just MathJax? –  egreg Oct 12 '12 at 22:45
@egreg I am not sure, on math.se it is printed with MathJax but when I type up latex documents I get the same problem too, so it's probably a latex wide problem. –  BenjaLim Oct 12 '12 at 22:46
You should never use $$ in LaTeX; probably $\bigwedge\nolimits^{\!k}V$ is what you're looking for. – egreg Oct 12 '12 at 22:48 Recall that MathJax (used in Math.SE) is not LaTeX, while it uses some of its conventions. – egreg Oct 12 '12 at 22:53 show 4 more comments ## 2 Answers Choose one among the following inputs, in LaTeX: $\bigwedge^k V$ $\bigwedge\nolimits^k V$ $\bigwedge\nolimits^{\!k} V$  The respective results are shown below The first is widely used, the second appears faulty. The command \! inserts a small backspacing. Why not using $$ in LaTeX is explained here: Why is $...$ preferable to ?

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\newcommand{\mybigwedge}[1]{\bigwedge^{\kern{-3pt}#1}}