We are interested in deepening the knowledge of methods based on formal power series applied to the nilpotent center problem of planar local analytic monodromic vector fields [Formula: see text]. As formal integrability is not enough to characterize such a center we use a more general object, namely, formal inverse integrating factors [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text]. Although by the existence of [Formula: see text] it is not possible to describe all nilpotent centers strata, we simplify, improve and also extend previous results on the relationship between these concepts. We use in the performed analysis the so-called Andreev number [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] associated to [Formula: see text] which is invariant under orbital equivalency of [Formula: see text]. Besides the leading terms in the [Formula: see text]-quasihomogeneous expansions that [Formula: see text] can have, we also prove the following: (i) If [Formula: see text] is even and there exists [Formula: see text] then [Formula: see text] has a center; (ii) if [Formula: see text], the existence of [Formula: see text] characterizes all the centers; (iii) if there is a [Formula: see text] with minimum “vanishing multiplicity” at the singularity then, generically, [Formula: see text] has a center.