2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/38796By examining the behaviour of the "SLAC" lattice derivative operators, it is found that lattices with an even number of sites have a somewhat strange self-consistency requirement for extra structure in the spatial derivative operator, which is not needed by lattices having an odd number of sites, and which is not at all obvious from a first-principles derivation. The general implications of this extra required structure are not, as yet, completely clear.13 pagesHigh Energy Physics - Latticetext