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Emergence of Cooperation in the thermodynamic limit

Colin Benjamin, Shubhayan Sarkar

arXiv 27 Mar 2018 · physics.soc-ph · publishedChaos Solitons & Fractals (2020) · 10 citations (OpenAlex)

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Abstract

Predicting how cooperative behavior arises in the thermodynamic limit is one of the outstanding problems in evolutionary game theory. For two player games, cooperation is seldom the Nash equilibrium. However, in the thermodynamic limit cooperation is the natural recourse regardless of whether we are dealing with humans or animals. In this work, we use the analogy with the Ising model to predict how cooperation arises in the thermodynamic limit.

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