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Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS) in classical game theory is a refinement of Nash equilibrium concept. We investigate the consequences when a small group of mutants using quantum strategies try to invade a classical ESS in a population…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Iqbal , A. H. Toor

The idea of evolutionarily stable state (ESS) of a population is a cornerstone of evolutionary game theory; moreover, it coincides with the game-theoretic concept of Nash equilibrium. Such a state corresponds to a strategy adopted by the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-06 Suman Chakraborty , Vikash Kumar Dubey , Vaibhav Madhok , Sagar Chakraborty

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is the defining concept of evolutionary game theory. It has a fairly unanimously accepted definition for the case of symmetric games which are played in a homogeneous population where all individuals are…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-26 Vikash Kumar Dubey , Suman Chakraborty , Arunava Patra , Sagar Chakraborty

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) was originally defined as a static concept but later given a dynamic characterization. A well known theorem in evolutionary game theory says that an ESS is an attractor of replicator dynamics but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Azhar Iqbal , A. H. Toor

Theory of quantum games is a new area of investigation that has gone through rapid development during the last few years. Initial motivation for playing games, in the quantum world, comes from the possibility of re-formulating quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Azhar Iqbal

As an equilibrium refinement of the Nash equilibrium, evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a key concept in evolutionary game theory and has attracted growing interest. An ESS can be either a pure strategy or a mixed strategy. Even…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Xinyang Deng , Zhen Wang , Qi Liu , Yong Deng , Sankaran Mahadevan

An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is an equilibrium strategy that is immune to invasions by rare alternative (``mutant'') strategies. Unlike Nash equilibria, ESS do not always exist in finite games. In this paper we address the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Sergiu Hart , Yosef Rinott , Benjamin Weiss

The well known refinement of the Nash Equilibrium (NE) called an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS) is investigated in the quantum Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game that is played using an Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen type setting. Earlier results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Azhar Iqbal , Derek Abbott

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is an important solution concept in game theory which has been applied frequently to biological models. Informally an ESS is a strategy that if followed by the population cannot be taken over by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Sam Ganzfried

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is a key concept in evolutionary game theory. ESS provides an evolutionary stability criterion for biological, social and economical behaviors. In this paper, we develop a new approach to evaluate ESS in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Haozhen Situ

In game theory, an Evolutionarily Stable Set (ES set) is a set of Nash Equilibrium (NE) strategies that give the same payoffs. Similar to an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ES strategy), an ES set is also a strict NE. This work investigates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Tina Yu , Radel Ben-Av

The concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), introduced by Smith and Price, is a refinement of Nash equilibrium in 2-player symmetric games in order to explain counter-intuitive natural phenomena, whose existence is not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Themistoklis Melissourgos , Paul Spirakis

We investigate the role of quantum mechanical effects in the central stability concept of evolutionary game theory i.e. an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS). Using two and three-player symmetric quantum games we show how the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Iqbal , A. H. Toor

The replicator equation is a simple model of evolution that leads to stable form of Nash Equilibrium, Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS). It has been studied in connection with Evolutionary Game Theory and was originally developed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Tinsae G. Dulecha

In bi-matrix games the Bishop-Cannings theorem of the classical evolutionary game theory does not permit pure evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs) when a mixed ESS exists. We find the necessary form of two-qubit initial quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Iqbal , A. H. Toor

We present an algorithm for computing evolutionarily stable strategies (ESSs) in symmetric perfect-recall extensive-form games of imperfect information. Our main algorithm is for two-player games, and we describe how it can be extended to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Sam Ganzfried

We quantized the Hawk-Dove game by using the most general form of a pure initial state to investigate the existence of pure and mixed Evolutionarily Stable Strategies (ESS). An example is considered to draw a comparison between classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 Ahmad Nawaz , A. H. Toor

A systematic theory is introduced that describes stochastic effects in game theory. In a biological context, such effects are relevant for the evolution of finite populations with frequency-dependent selection. They are characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Lassig

In evolutionary game theory, evolutionarily stable states are characterised by the folk theorem because exact solutions to the replicator equation are difficult to obtain. It is generally assumed that the folk theorem, which is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Jiawei Li , Graham Kendall

We present a new solution concept called evolutionarily stable Stackelberg equilibrium (SESS). We study the Stackelberg evolutionary game setting in which there is a single leading player and a symmetric population of followers. The leader…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sam Ganzfried
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