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The game interactions among individuals in nature are often uncertain and dynamically evolving, significantly influencing the persistence of cooperation. However, it remains a formidable challenge to effectively characterize these dynamic…

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Evolutionary game theory has impacted many fields of research by providing a mathematical framework for studying the evolution and maintenance of social and moral behaviors. This success is owed in large part to the demonstration that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-03 José F. Fontanari

We propose a new Monte Carlo method for efficiently sampling trajectories with fixed initial and final conditions in a system with discrete degrees of freedom. The method can be applied to any stochastic process with local interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-30 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak , Francesco Zamponi

In this paper, we deal with some specific domains of applications to game theory. This is one of the major class of models in the new approaches of modelling in the economic domain. For that, we use genetic automata which allow to buid…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-12-17 Rawan Ghnemat , Khalaf Khatatneh , Saleh Oqeili , Cyrille Bertelle , Gérard Henry Edmond Duchamp

Historical sciences like evolutionary biology reconstruct past events by using the traces that the past has bequeathed to the present. The Markov Chain Convergence Theorem and the Data Processing Inequality describe how the mutual…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-22 Elliott Sober , Mike Steel

A dynamical picture of phylogenetic evolution is given in terms of Markov models on a state space, comprising joint probability distributions for character types of taxonomic classes. Phylogenetic branching is a process which augments the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 P. D. Jarvis , J. D. Bashford , J. G. Sumner

We introduce and study a mean-field model for a system of spatially distributed players interacting through an evolutionary game driven by a replicator dynamics. Strategies evolve by a replicator dynamics influenced by the position and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Luigi Ambrosio , Massimo Fornasier , Marco Morandotti , Giuseppe Savaré

Identifying and characterizing mutational paths is an important issue in evolutionary biology and in bioengineering. We here introduce a generic description of mutational paths in terms of the goodness of sequences and of the mutational…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-29 Eugenio Mauri , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson

It is known that learning of players who interact in a repeated game can be interpreted as an evolutionary process in a population of ideas. These analogies have so far mostly been established in deterministic models, and memory loss in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-09 Robin Nicole , Peter Sollich , Tobias Galla

We develop a resonance theory to describe the evolution of open systems with time-dependent dynamics. Our approach is based on piecewise constant Hamiltonians: we represent the evolution on each constant bit using a recently developed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-25 Marco Merkli , Shannon Starr

Although the cooperative dynamics emerging from a network of interacting players has been exhaustively investigated, it is not yet fully understood when and how network reciprocity drives cooperation transitions. In this work, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-17 Nagi Khalil , I. Leyva , J. A. Almendral , I. Sendiña-Nadal

We demonstrate a vast expansion of the theory of evolutionary stability to finite populations with mutation, connecting the theory of the stationary distribution of the Moran process with the Lyapunov theory of evolutionary stability. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Marc Harper , Dashiell Fryer

We consider the lifetimes of metastable states in bistable evolutionary games (coordination games), and examine how they are affected by spatial structure. A semiclassical approximation based on a path integral method is applied to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-12-01 Kohaku H. Z. So , Hisashi Ohtsuki , Takeo Kato

The main purpose of this paper is to improve our transposition method to solve both vector-valued and operator-valued backward stochastic evolution equations with a general filtration. As its application, we obtain a general Pontryagin-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Qi Lu , Xu Zhang

We consider a simple discrete-time Markov chain with values in $[0,\infty)^{Z^d}$. The Markov chain describes various interesting examples such as oriented percolation, directed polymers in random environment, time discretizations of binary…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Nobuo Yoshida

In this paper, we study analytically the statistics of the number of equilibria in pairwise social dilemma evolutionary games with mutation where a game's payoff entries are random variables. Using the replicator-mutator equations, we…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 Manh Hong Duong , The Anh Han

Genome rearrangements are evolutionary events that shuffle genomic architectures. Most frequent genome rearrangements are reversals, translocations, fusions, and fissions. While there are some more complex genome rearrangements such as…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-07 Nikita Alexeev , Rustem Aidagulov , Max A. Alekseyev

This paper aims to the conditions of traffic flow evolving to stability and the stability of equilibrium under demand time-varying of traffic networks. The general framework of the evolution of flow dynamics by adopting evolutionary game…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-07-26 Xingguang Chen

These lectures are intended as an introduction to the technique of path integrals and their applications in physics. The audience is mainly first-year graduate students, and it is assumed that the reader has a good foundation in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard MacKenzie

Biomolecular folding, at least in simple systems, can be described as a two state transition in a free energy landscape with two deep wells separated by a high barrier. Transition paths are the short part of the trajectories that cross the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-10 M. Laleman , E. Carlon , H. Orland