How to write dot products as ?

Question

In my class, we write dot products like <v, w>, but the < and > on LaTeX are too stretched out and become too close to the adjacent elements.

The symbol is used in the cover of this youtube video

Answer 1

You probably want to use \langle and \rangle:

$\langle u,v\rangle$

Those are standard LaTeX commands used for duality brackets or Dirac brackets.