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To predict the behavior of a population game when time becomes very long, the process that characterizes the evolution of our game dynamics must be reversible. Known games satisfying this are 2 strategy games as well as potential games with…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Meziane Privat

Markov games with coupling constraints model constrained dynamical decision-making involving self-interested agents, where the feasibility of an individual agent's strategy depends on the joint strategies of the others. Such games arise in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tingting Ni , Anna Maddux , Maryam Kamgarpour

We introduce and study an evolutionary complementarity game where in each round a player of population 1 is paired with a member of population 2. The game is symmetric, and each player tries to obtain an advantageous deal, but when one of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Juergen Jost , Wei Li

We study variants of regular infinite games where the strict alternation of moves between the two players is subject to modifications. The second player may postpone a move for a finite number of steps, or, in other words, exploit in his…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Michael Holtmann , Lukasz Kaiser , Wolfgang Thomas

Evolutionary game theory has proved to be a powerful tool to probe the self-organisation of collective behaviour by considering frequency-dependent fitness in evolutionary processes. It has shown that the stability of a strategy depends not…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Diogo L. Pires , Mark Broom

Evolutionary game theory has been widely used to study the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas where imitation-led strategy updates are typically assumed. However, results of recent behavioral experiments are not compatible with the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Ik Soo Lim , Peter Wittek

We study the existence of almost periodic solutions for semi-linear abstract parabolic evolution equations with impulse action at state-dependent moments. In particular, we present conditions excluding the beating phenomenon in these…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-07 Robert Hakl , Manuel Pinto , Viktor Tkachenko , Sergei Trofimchuk

Microscopic strategy update rules play an important role in the evolutionary dynamics of cooperation among interacting agents on complex networks. Many previous related works only consider one \emph{fixed} rule, while in the real world,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-27 Shengxian Wang , Weijia Yao , Ming Cao , Xiaojie Chen

Evolutionary games provide the theoretical backbone for many aspects of our social life: from cooperation to crime, from climate inaction to imperfect vaccination and epidemic spreading, from antibiotics overuse to biodiversity…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-04 I. Sendiña-Nadal , I. Leyva , M. Perc , D. Papo , M. Jusup , Z. Wang , J. A. Almendral , P. Manshour , S. Boccaletti

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…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bin Pi , Minyu Feng , Liang-Jian Deng , Xiaojie Chen , Attila Szolnoki

We show that the problem of deciding whether in a multi-player perfect information recursive game (i.e. a stochastic game with terminal rewards) there exists a stationary Nash equilibrium ensuring each player a certain payoff is Existential…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Kristoffer Arnsfelt Hansen , Steffan Christ Sølvsten

We investigate the interplay between passivity, no-regret, and convergence in contractive games for various learning dynamic models and their higher-order variants. Our setting is continuous time. Building on prior work for replicator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Hassan Abdelraouf , Georgios Piliouras , Jeff S. Shamma

Evolutionary game theory has been an important tool for describing economic and social behaviour for decades. Approximate mean value equations describing the time evolution of strategy concentrations can be derived from the players'…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2011-02-10 Mathis Antony , Degang Wu , K Y Szeto

In this paper, we investigate how randomness and uncertainty influence learning in games. Specifically, we examine a perturbed variant of the dynamics of "follow-the-regularized-leader" (FTRL), where the players' payoff observations and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pierre-Louis Cauvin , Davide Legacci , Panayotis Mertikopoulos

The emergence of mutual cooperation is studied in a spatially extended evolutionary prisoner's dilemma game in which the players are located on the sites of cubic lattices for dimensions d=1, 2, and 3. Each player can choose one of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gyorgy Szabo , Tibor Antal , Peter Szabo , Michel Droz

In the realm of evolutionary game theory, standard frameworks typically presuppose that every player possesses comprehensive knowledge and unrestricted access to the entire strategy space. However, real-world human society inherently…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Feipeng Zhang , Te Wu , Guofeng Zhang , Long Wang

We discuss a model for evolutionary game dynamics in a growing, network-structured population. In our model, new players can either make connections to random preexisting players or preferentially attach to those that have been successful…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Poncela , J. Gomez-Gardenes , A. Traulsen , Y. Moreno

We study adaptive learning in a typical p-player game. The payoffs of the games are randomly generated and then held fixed. The strategies of the players evolve through time as the players learn. The trajectories in the strategy space…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-04-09 James B. T. Sanders , J. Doyne Farmer , Tobias Galla

We consider a broad class of stochastic imitation dynamics over networks, encompassing several well known learning models such as the replicator dynamics. In the considered models, players have no global information about the game…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Lorenzo Zino , Giacomo Como , Fabio Fagnani

The literature on evolutionary game theory suggests that pure strategies that are strictly dominated by other pure strategies always become extinct under imitative game dynamics, but they can survive under innovative dynamics. As we…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Yannick Viossat