Alignmentequation*

equation*Environment

Used for a single displayed equation without an equation number in AMS math documents.

\begin{equation*}
  x = y
\end{equation*}
Topic
Alignment
Available in
ams
Allowed mode
math
Body mode
math
Frequency
5.60% of corpus formulasrank 5 of 31
Commonality
high
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
amsMathJax: FullKaTeX: NoneXeTeX: Full
About the test scope

Syntax#

\begin{equation*}…math body\end{equation*}

Takes no arguments. Reading argspecs

Common tasks#

How to write a single unnumbered equation#

\begin{equation*} E=mc^2 \end{equation*}

How to display a formula without a tag#

Equivalent to \[ ... \] in most documents.

\begin{equation*} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2}\,dx=\sqrt{\pi} \end{equation*}

In TeXForm#

TeXForm reads the environment body in math mode.

See also#

Test cases#

ams
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\begin{equation*} a \end{equation*}Positive · baselinePassFailPass
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