Circ above $D^3$ in a nice way

Question

I want to denote the interior of $D^3$ , so I use $\overset{\circ}{D^3}$ . This looks like this:

However I find this kind of ugly, and would rather have the circ just above the $D$ , but then $\overset{\circ}{D}^3$ is giving even stranger things, like this:

Is there a way to have what I want? This would be basically the \circ as in the second image, and the 3 as in the first.

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score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '16 at 14:10

You should use \mathring{...}, rather than \overset{\circ}{...}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

\[
\mathring{D^{3}}
\qquad
\mathring{D}^{3}
\]

\end{document}

The amsmath package is not really necessary for this, but it's recommended for any math document.

Circ above $D^3$ in a nice way

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