Rock-Paper-Scissors Lattice Model

In this work, we introduce Rock-Paper-Scissors lattice model on Cayley tree of second order generated by Rock-Paper-Scissors game. In this strategic 2-player game, the rule is simple: rock beats scissors, scissors beat paper, and paper beats rock. A payoff matrix of this game is a skew-symmetric. It is known that quadratic stochastic operator generated by this matrix is non-ergodic transformation. The Hamiltonian of Rock-Paper-Scissors Lattice Model is defined by this skew-symmetric payoff matrix . In this paper, we discuss a connection between three fields of research: evolutionary games, quadratic stochastic operators, and lattice models of statistical physics. We prove that a phase diagram of the Rock-Paper-Scissors model consists of translation-invariant and periodic Gibbs measure with period 3.

Periodic Gibbs measures for models with uncountable set of spin values on a Cayley tree

We consider models with nearest-neighbor interactions and with the set [0, 1] of spin values, on a Cayley tree of order k ≥ 1. We show that periodic Gibbs measures are either translation-invariant or periodic with period two. We describe two-periodic Gibbs measures of the model. For k = 1 we show that there is no any periodic Gibbs measure. In case k ≥ 2 we get a sufficient condition on Hamiltonian of the model with uncountable set of spin values under which the model has no periodic Gibbs measure. We construct several models which have at least two periodic Gibbs measures.