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I have an equation, as shown in the following picture:

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I want to center the second part of the objective function ( + \alpha \sum_{j} \left(Qp_j + Qn_j\right) ) between the two red lines. How can I achieve that. The following is my MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
The objective is to minimize the total operational cost:
\begin{equation}
\begin{gathered}
\min z = \mathrm{fa} \left(N_{\mathrm{h}} \mathrm{CFW} \sum_{j} Fw_j + 
             \mathrm{CHU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{HU}} + \mathrm{CCU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{CU}}\right) \\ 
           + \alpha \sum_{j} \left(Qp_j + Qn_j\right) 
\end{gathered}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
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  • Is fa a factor of the second part/line?
    – Bernard
    Aug 10, 2015 at 10:06

2 Answers 2

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Unless the material on the second row falls in the scope of "fa" (which, judging by the screenshot you've posted, isn't the case), I would not center the material on the second row with respect to the parentheses on the first row. Instead, I would use a split environment, as is shown in the screenshot below. Why not center the material on row 2? Because doing so risks "losing it" in the clutter, visually/typographically speaking.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
    \begin{equation}\begin{split}
    \min z &= \mathrm{fa} \biggl(N_{\mathrm{h}} \mathrm{CFW} \sum_{j} Fw_j 
             + \mathrm{CHU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{HU}} 
             + \mathrm{CCU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{CU}}\biggr) \\ 
    &\quad+ \alpha \sum_{j} \bigl(Qp_j + Qn_j\bigr) 
    \end{split}\end{equation}
\end{document}

If you must center the second row relative to the RHS of the first row, you could so via an array environment embedded in the equation environment.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,array}
\begin{document}
The objective is to minimize the total operational cost:
\begin{equation}
\min z = 
\begin{array}[t]{@{}>{\displaystyle}c@{}}
\mathrm{fa} \biggl(N_{\mathrm{h}} \mathrm{CFW} \sum_{j} Fw_j 
             + \mathrm{CHU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{HU}} 
             + \mathrm{CCU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{CU}}\biggr) \\ 
{}+ \alpha \sum_{j} \bigl(Qp_j + Qn_j\bigr) \\
\end{array}
\end{equation}
\end{document}
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  • You're missing a space between + and alpha in the second example. With {}+\alpha you'd get it (spoiling the centering by a tiny bit); or +\:\alpha using explicitly \medmuskip..
    – egreg
    Aug 10, 2015 at 8:15
  • @egreg - thanks for noticing that the + sign in the second row is treated as a unary rather than as a binary operator. I'll fix up the code right away (by adding a {} (empty math atom) in front of the + symbol in question). I trust no-one is going to notice the every-so-slight asymmetry. :-)
    – Mico
    Aug 10, 2015 at 8:19
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Mico's answer is great. I just wanted to point out that if you want the centering, an easier (but perhaps more hacky) way to do it is to simply push the second line to the right:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
The objective is to minimize the total operational cost:
\begin{equation}
\begin{gathered}
\min z = \mathrm{fa} \left(N_{\mathrm{h}} \mathrm{CFW} \sum_{j} Fw_j + 
             \mathrm{CHU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{HU}} + \mathrm{CCU} \sum_{k} Q_k^{\mathrm{CU}}\right) \\ 
             \hphantom{\min z = {}} % Pushes content to the right by the right amount
           + \alpha \sum_{j} \left(Qp_j + Qn_j\right) 
\end{gathered}
\end{equation}
\end{document}

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