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Interacting many-body systems as non-cooperative games

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We explore the possibility that physical phenomena arising from interacting multi-particle systems, can be usefully interpreted in terms of multi-player games. We show how non-cooperative phenomena can emerge from Ising Hamiltonians, even though the individual spins behave cooperatively. Our findings establish a mapping between two fundamental models from condensed matter physics and game theory.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212505,
  title  = {Interacting many-body systems as non-cooperative games},
  author = {Chiu Fan Lee and Neil F. Johnson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212505},
  year   = {2007}
}

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12 pages