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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2014
In this paper we consider the set of all extremal Volterra quadratic stochastic operators defined on a unit simplex
$S^{4}$ and show that such operators can be reinterpreted in terms of zero-sum games. We show that an extremal Volterra operator is non-ergodic and an appropriate zero-sum game is a rock-paper-scissors game if either the Volterra operator is a uniform operator or for a non-uniform Volterra operator
$V$ there exists a subset
$I\subset \{1,2,3,4,5\}$ with
$|I|\leq 2$ such that
$\sum _{i\in I}(V^{n}\mathbf{x})_{i}\rightarrow 0,$ and the restriction of
$V$ on an invariant face
${\rm\Gamma}_{I}=\{\mathbf{x}\in S^{m-1}:x_{i}=0,i\in I\}$ is a uniform Volterra operator.