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Whats the command for this symbol: ⇅

I've found ⇈ \upuparrows but I can't find the other one.

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The package mathabx provides all arrows of this kind. The one you're looking for is \updownarrows.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathabx}

\begin{document}

$\upuparrows$ -  $\downdownarrows$ - $\updownarrows$ - $\downuparrows$

\end{document}

enter image description here

For such questions, a good place to look at is the comprehensive LaTeX symbols list.

Note that mathabx redefines many symbols. An alternative is the following code, which produces updownarrows in a pure-latex fashion, but as you can see, the result is still not fully identical to amssymb's \upuparrows.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}

\newcommand{\updownarrows}{\mathbin\uparrow\hspace{-.5em}\downarrow}
\newcommand{\downuparrows}{\mathbin\downarrow\hspace{-.5em}\uparrow}

\begin{document}

$\upuparrows$ -  $\downdownarrows$ - $\updownarrows$ - $\downuparrows$


\end{document}

enter image description here

A possible solution would be to redefine \upuparrows and \downdownarrows as well :

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}

\newcommand{\updownarrows}{\mathbin\uparrow\hspace{-.3em}\downarrow}
\newcommand{\downuparrows}{\mathbin\downarrow\hspace{-.3em}\uparrow}
\renewcommand{\upuparrows}{\mathbin\uparrow\hspace{-.3em}\uparrow}
\renewcommand{\downdownarrows}{\mathbin\downarrow\hspace{-.3em}\downarrow}

\begin{document}

$\upuparrows$ -  $\downdownarrows$ - $\updownarrows$ - $\downuparrows$

\end{document}

enter image description here

In comments, egreg proposed the following answer, for the same result (well, not technically the same), but with a cleaner code. It will probably give better spacing results if used within longer formulas :

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}

\newcommand{\updownarrows}{\uparrow\mathrel{\mspace{-1mu}}\downarrow}
\newcommand{\downuparrows}{\downarrow\mathrel{\mspace{-1mu}}\uparrow}
\renewcommand{\upuparrows}{\uparrow\uparrow}
\renewcommand{\downdownarrows}{\downarrow\downarrow}

\begin{document}

$\upuparrows$ -  $\downdownarrows$ - $\updownarrows$ - $\downuparrows$

\end{document}

tex output

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    Usual caveat: mathabx changes many symbols with its owns. – egreg Dec 9 '12 at 14:00
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    @egreg : Indeed, and even those arrows don't have the same heads as the usual arrows. I will edit with a pure-latex solution, but the result isn't exactly similar to amssymb's double arrows either. – T. Verron Dec 9 '12 at 14:17
  • Why those \mathbin tokens in the last solution? They act only on the following token and affect the global spacing. – egreg Dec 9 '12 at 14:50
  • @egreg : If I don't add them, the arrows will be stuck to the dash, unlike the regular \upuparrows. About the command affecting only the first token, that's what I thought as well, but since the result seems quite symmetrically spaced, I did not change it further. – T. Verron Dec 9 '12 at 14:56
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    I'd simply go for \uparrow\uparrow and \uparrow\mathrel{\mspace{-1mu}}\downarrow, using the fact that those arrows are defined as relation symbols. – egreg Dec 9 '12 at 16:04

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