Spontaneous symmetry breaking in interdependent networked game.

ABSTRACT: Spatial evolution game has traditionally assumed that players interact with direct neighbors on a single network, which is isolated and not influenced by other systems. However, this is not fully consistent with recent research identification that interactions between networks play a crucial rule for the outcome of evolutionary games taking place on them. In this work, we introduce the simple game model into the interdependent networks composed of two networks. By means of imitation dynamics, we display that when the interdependent factor α is smaller than a threshold value α(C), the symmetry of cooperation can be guaranteed. Interestingly, as interdependent factor exceeds α(C), spontaneous symmetry breaking of fraction of cooperators presents itself between different networks. With respec

SUBMITTER: Jin Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3924213 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature