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Arrows

These are the arrows that come with standard LaTeX. The latexsym and amsfonts packages contain many more.

Symbol Command
⇓ \Downarrow
↓ \downarrow
↩ \hookleftarrow
↪ \hookrightarrow
← \leftarrow
⇐ \Leftarrow
⇔ \Leftrightarrow
↔ \leftrightarrow
⟵ \longleftarrow
⟸ \Longleftarrow
⟷ \longleftrightarrow
⟺ \Longleftrightarrow
⟼ \longmapsto
⟹ \Longrightarrow
⟶ \longrightarrow
↦ \mapsto
↗ \nearrow
↖ \nwarrow
⇒ \Rightarrow
→ \rightarrow, or \to
↘ \searrow
↙ \swarrow
↑ \uparrow
⇑ \Uparrow
↕ \updownarrow
⇕ \Updownarrow

An example of the difference between \to and \mapsto is: \( f\colon D\to C \) given by \( n\mapsto n^2 \).

For commutative diagrams there are a number of packages, including tikz-cd and amscd.

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