Evolutionary Games of Multiplayer Cooperation on Graphs.

ABSTRACT: There has been much interest in studying evolutionary games in structured populations, often modeled as graphs. However, most analytical results so far have only been obtained for two-player or linear games, while the study of more complex multiplayer games has been usually tackled by computer simulations. Here we investigate evolutionary multiplayer games on graphs updated with a Moran death-Birth process. For cycles, we obtain an exact analytical condition for cooperation to be favored by natural selection, given in terms of the payoffs of the game and a set of structure coefficients. For regular graphs of degree three and larger, we estimate this condition using a combination of pair approximation and diffusion approximation. For a large class of cooperation games, our approximations su

SUBMITTER: Pena J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4981334 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature