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Expand the anticommutators using the relations in part (a). The terms with two creation or two annihilation operators vanish, leavingEach Majorana fermion operator is Hermitian and squares to the identity. In particular, $({\gamma }_i^A{)}^{†}{\gamma }_i^A=1$, so this expression cannot distinguish an empty mode from an occupied one. A single Majorana operator is its own adjoint and does not supply distinct creation and annihilation operators for such an occupation.

An occupation can instead be assigned after pairing Majorana operators into a fermionic mode. For two distinct Majorana operators ${\gamma }_a,{\gamma }_b$,This is a nontrivial projection operator with eigenvalues zero and one. Thus occupation belongs to a chosen pair of Majorana operators, not to an individual Majorana operator.