# Remove vertical space between text and equations in column alignment

Is there a way to remove this large vertical space between my text and equations. I think this problem is a result of my aligning the equations into two columns.This is the code that I am using

by the following CES aggregators:
\begin{multicols}{2}
$$C_{O,t}$$\break
$$C_{Z,t}$$
\end{multicols}


• Welcome! Can you complete your code so we have a small document we can compile? – cfr Aug 22 '15 at 22:04
• You mean vertical space, I suppose. – Bernard Aug 22 '15 at 22:06
• If you want to keep your multicols, use \noindent as in by the following CES aggregators: \begin{multicols}{2} \noindent $$C_{O,t}$$\columnbreak $$C_{Z,t}$$ \end{multicols} – Gonzalo Medina Aug 22 '15 at 22:15
• @GonzaloMedina Thank you so much for your suggestion! It worked like a breeze. – Gothai Ganan Aug 22 '15 at 22:57
• @Bernard I am sorry about that. I have made the necessary corrections to my question. – Gothai Ganan Aug 22 '15 at 22:59

I would just use minipages. For example:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
by the following CES aggregators:

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
$$C_{O,t}$$
\end{minipage}%
\begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth}
$$C_{Z,t}$$
\end{minipage}
\end{document}