English

Motion of influential players can support cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma

Physics and Society 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We study a spatial Prisoner's dilemma game with two types (A and B) of players located on a square lattice. Players following either cooperator or defector strategies play Prisoner's Dilemma games with their 24 nearest neighbors. The players are allowed to adopt one of their neighbor's strategy with a probability dependent on the payoff difference and type of the given neighbor. Players A and B have different efficiency in the transfer of their own strategy therefore the strategy adoption probability is reduced by a multiplicative factor (w < 1) from the players of type B. We report that the motion of the influential payers (type A) can improve remarkably the maintenance of cooperation even for their low densities.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0367,
  title  = {Motion of influential players can support cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma},
  author = {Michel Droz and Janusz Szwabiński and György Szabó},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0367},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures