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The Rock-Paper-Scissors(RPS) game is a paradigmatic model for cyclic dominance in biological systems. Here we consider this game in the social context of competition between opinions in a networked society. In our model, every agent has an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-11-08 Güven Demirel , Roshan Prizak , P. Nitish Reddy , Thilo Gross

Understanding the mechanisms that govern species coexistence and biodiversity represents a fundamental challenge in ecology. This study extends the classic rock-paper-scissors model by introducing a context-dependent higher-order…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Chunpeng Du , Haoshu Wang , Yikang Lu , Lijuan Qin , Junpyo Park

We study several variants of the stochastic four-state rock-paper-scissors game or, equivalently, cyclic three-species predator-prey models with conserved total particle density, by means of Monte Carlo simulations on one- and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-13 Qian He , Mauro Mobilia , Uwe C. Täuber

If rock beats scissors and scissors beat paper, one might assume that rock beats paper too. But this is not the case for intransitive relationships that make up the famous rock-paper-scissors game. However, the sole presence of paper might…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-18 Attila Szolnoki , Matjaz Perc

Multiple species in the ecosystem are believed to compete cyclically for survival and thus maintain balance in nature. Stochasticity has also an inevitable role in this dynamics. Considering these attributes of nature, the stochastic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-05 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Pritam Sinha , Rina De , Chittaranjan Hens

In the evolutionary dynamics of a rock-paper-scissor (RPS) model, the effect of natural death plays a major role in determining the fate of the system. Coexistence, being an unstable fixed point of the model becomes very sensitive towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-31 Sahil Islam , Argha Mondal , Mauro Mobilia , Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Chittaranjan Hens

We study a class of the stochastic May-Leonard models, with three species dominating each other in a cyclic nonhierarchical way, according to the rock-paper-scissors game. We introduce an unevenness in the system, by considering that one of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-23 J. Menezes , B. Moura , T. A. Pereira

A cyclically dominating three-species ecosystem, modeled within the framework of rock-paper-scissor game, is studied in presence of natural death and an effect of the environment. The environmental impact is parameterized along with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-11 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya

In this communication, a simple mechanism in the optional public goods game is experimentally investigated using two experimental settings; and first time, the cyclic strategy pattern in full state space is demonstrated by means of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-17 Bin Xu

We study the oscillatory dynamics in the generic three-species rock-paper-scissors games with mutations. In the mean-field limit, different behaviors are found: (a) for high mutation rate, there is a stable interior fixed point with…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-03-17 Mauro Mobilia

The spatial rock-paper-scissors ecosystem, where three species interact cyclically, is a model example of how spatial structure can maintain biodiversity. We here consider such a system for a broad range of interaction rates. When one…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Jeppe Juul , Kim Sneppen , Joachim Mathiesen

A central goal in ecology is to understand how biodiversity is maintained. Previous theoretical works have employed the rock-paper-scissors (RPS) game as a toy model, demonstrating that population mobility is crucial in determining the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-21 Kaiwen Jiang , Chenyang Zhao , Shengfeng Deng , Weiran Cai , Jiqiang Zhang , Li Chen

The classical game of rock-paper-scissors have inspired experiments and spatial model systems that address robustness of biological diversity. In particular the game nicely illustrates that cyclic interactions allow multiple strategies to…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2016-04-20 Namiko Mitarai , Ivar Gunnarson , Buster Niels Pedersen , Christian Anker Rosiek , Kim Sneppen

We investigate a modified spatial stochastic Lotka-Volterra formulation of the rock-paper-scissors model using off-lattice stochastic simulations. In this model one of the species moves preferentially in a specific direction -- the level of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-03 P. P. Avelino , B. F. de Oliveira , J. V. O. Silva

We introduce a non-diffusive spatial coupling term into the replicator equation of evolutionary game theory. The spatial flux is based on motion due to local gradients in the relative fitness of each strategy, providing a game-dependent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-12 Russ deForest , Andrew Belmonte

As a generalization of the 3-strategy Rock-Scissors-Paper game dynamics in space, cyclical interaction models of six mutating species are studied on a square lattice, in which each species is supposed to have two dominant, two subordinated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 G. Szabo , T. Czaran

This work reports on two related investigations of stochastic simulations which are widely used to study biodiversity and other related issues. We first deal with the behavior of the Hamming distance under the increase of the number of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-29 D. Bazeia , J. Menezes , B. F. de Oliveira , J. G. G. S. Ramos

There is mounting evidence that species interactions often involve long-term memory, with highly-varying waiting times between successive events and long-range temporal correlations. Accounting for memory undermines the common Markovian…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-24 Ohad Vilk , Mauro Mobilia , Michael Assaf

Cyclic (rock-paper-scissors-type) population models serve to mimic complex species interactions. Focusing on a paradigmatic three-species model with mutations in one dimension, we observe an interplay between equilibrium and non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-07 Anton A. Winkler , Tobias Reichenbach , Erwin Frey

The environment has a strong influence on a population's evolutionary dynamics. Driven by both intrinsic and external factors, the environment is subject to continual change in nature. To capture an ever-changing environment, we consider a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Qi Su , Alex McAvoy , Long Wang , Martin A. Nowak