Cooperate or Not Cooperate in Predictable but Periodically Varying Situations? Cooperation in Fast Oscillating Environment.
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SUBMITTER: Babajanyan SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7610311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
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Cooperate or Not Cooperate in Predictable but Periodically Varying Situations? Cooperation in Fast Oscillating Environment.
Babajanyan S G SG Lin Wayne W Cheong Kang Hao KH
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) 20200918 21
In this work, the cooperation problem between two populations in a periodically varying environment is discussed. In particular, the two-population prisoner's dilemma game with periodically oscillating payoffs is discussed, such that the time-average of these oscillations over the period of environmental variations vanishes. The possible overlaps of these oscillations generate completely new dynamical effects that drastically change the phase space structure of the two-population evolutionary dy ...[more]
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