Szabó, GyörgyBodó, Kinga S.Allen, BenjaminNowak, Martin A.2019-10-032014Szabó, György, Kinga S. Bodó, Benjamin Allen, and Martin A. Nowak. 2014. “Fourier Decomposition of Payoff Matrix for Symmetric Three-Strategy Games.” Physical Review E 90 (4). https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.90.042811.1539-37551550-2376http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41461271In spatial evolutionary games the payoff matrices are used to describe pair interactions among neighboring players located on a lattice. Now we introduce a way how the payoff matrices can be built up as a sum of payoff components reflecting basic symmetries. For the two-strategy games this decomposition reproduces interactions characteristic to the Ising model. For the three-strategy symmetric games the Fourier components can be classified into four types representing games with self-dependent and cross-dependent payoffs, variants of three-strategy coordinations, and the rock-scissors-paper (RSP) game. In the absence of the RSP component the game is a potential game. The resultant potential matrix has been evaluated. The general features of these systems are analyzed when the game is expressed by the linear combinations of these components.en-USJournal Article2019-10-0310.1103/PhysRevE.90.042811