Writing only circumflex (^) character in Latex

I’m trying to write an equation in Latex which uses the circumflex character as an operator. The whole thing should look something like this:
a ^ b

I tried stuff like $a \^ b$ or $a \hat{ } b$ but the first one didn’t work at all and the second one didn’t look nice (see image result for second method). What would be the right way of doing this?

>Solution :

You could use something like this:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\[
a \,^{\wedge}\, b
\]

\end{document}