Cooperation within triplets in the rock-paper-scissors game

We study a population involved in a cyclic game of three strategies – the rock-paper-scissors game – whose agents interact through groups of three individuals (triplets), considering the possibility that two weak agents cooperate and beat a strong one. In a wide range of parameters the system presen...

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Autores: Hernández Lahme, Damián Gabriel, Zanette, Damian Horacio
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Recursos:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/26671
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26671
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Game
Evolutionary
Cooperation
Triplets
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Resumo:We study a population involved in a cyclic game of three strategies – the rock-paper-scissors game – whose agents interact through groups of three individuals (triplets), considering the possibility that two weak agents cooperate and beat a strong one. In a wide range of parameters the system presents a stable heteroclinic cycle, which implies that in a finite population some of the strategies become extinct and others survive. We find that the cooperation within triplets only benefits the survival of the strategy if the cooperation probability is above a certain threshold. We study the survival probabilities of the different strategies as a function of the cooperation parameters through a analytic approximation and compare with simulations, obtaining a good agreement. Results are generalizable to other systems with heteroclinic cycles.