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Emergence of Cooperation in the thermodynamic limit

Physics and Society 2020-04-10 v2 Statistical Mechanics Computer Science and Game Theory Econometrics Mathematical Physics math.MP Populations and Evolution

Abstract

Predicting how cooperative behavior arises in the thermodynamic limit is one of the outstanding problems in evolutionary game theory. For two player games, cooperation is seldom the Nash equilibrium. However, in the thermodynamic limit cooperation is the natural recourse regardless of whether we are dealing with humans or animals. In this work, we use the analogy with the Ising model to predict how cooperation arises in the thermodynamic limit.

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@article{arxiv.1803.10083,
  title  = {Emergence of Cooperation in the thermodynamic limit},
  author = {Colin Benjamin and Shubhayan Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.10083},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

21 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (2020)