Abstract
We discuss topological obstructions to putting chiral fermions on an even-dimensional lattice. The setting includes Ginsparg–Wilson fermions, but is more general. We prove a theorem which relates the total chirality to the difference of generalised winding numbers of chiral projection operators. For an odd number of Weyl fermions this implies that particles and anti-particles live in topologically different spaces.
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