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I'm very new to the TikZ environment. I'm trying to replace the "4" in the following graph by a Greek letter (ideally a \tau^{*}). Any idea ? Thanks in advance

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    declare function={
            gamma(\x)= 0.25*\x*\x*exp(-0.5*\x);
    }
]

\begin{axis}[
  no markers, domain=1:13, samples=200,
  axis lines*=left, xlabel=$\tau$, ylabel=$V(\tau)$,
  every axis y label/.style={at=(current axis.above origin),anchor=south},
  every axis x label/.style={at=(current axis.right of origin),anchor=west},
  xtick={4}, ytick=\empty,
  enlargelimits=false, clip=false, axis on top,
  grid = major,    
  xmin=0, ymin=0,
]
\addplot [very thick,cyan] {gamma(x)}; 
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

1 Answer 1

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You can use

xticklabel={$\tau^{\ast}$},

The complete code:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    declare function={
            gamma(\x)= 0.25*\x*\x*exp(-0.5*\x);
    }
]

\begin{axis}[
  no markers, domain=1:13, samples=200,
  axis lines*=left, xlabel=$\tau$, ylabel=$V(\tau)$,
  every axis y label/.style={at=(current axis.above origin),anchor=south},
  every axis x label/.style={at=(current axis.right of origin),anchor=west},
  xtick={4}, 
  xticklabel={$\tau^{\ast}$},
  ytick=\empty,
  enlargelimits=false, clip=false, axis on top,
  grid = major,    
  xmin=0, ymin=0,
]
\addplot [very thick,cyan] {gamma(x)}; 
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Using xticklabels={<list>} you can supply a list of tick labels to each tick assigned using xtick:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[
    declare function={
            gamma(\x)= 0.25*\x*\x*exp(-0.5*\x);
    }
]

\begin{axis}[
  no markers, domain=1:13, samples=200,
  axis lines*=left, xlabel=$\tau$, ylabel=$V(\tau)$,
  every axis y label/.style={at=(current axis.above origin),anchor=south},
  every axis x label/.style={at=(current axis.right of origin),anchor=west},
  xtick={4, 6}, 
  xticklabels={$\tau^{\ast}$, $\gamma$},
  ytick=\empty,
  enlargelimits=false, clip=false, axis on top,
  grid = major,    
  xmin=0, ymin=0,
]
\addplot [very thick,cyan] {gamma(x)}; 
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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