Coordination and growth: The Stag Hunt game on evolutionary networks.

Michele Starnini, Angel Sánchez, Julia Poncela, Yamir Moreno
Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment  P05008 ,  P05008 (2011)
Times cited: 4
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Abstract

Recently, the study of evolutionary games on networks has attracted a
great interest, focusing mainly on the problem of the emergence of cooperation. A well
studied framework for this problem is the Prisoner’s Dilemma game on ?xed, evolving
or growing networks. In this paper we present a complete picture of the behavior
of another important social dilemma, the Stag Hunt game, under an evolutionary
preferential attachment model, in which the network grows according to the dynamical
states of the elements of the system. We observe the emergence of a scale-free
and hierarchical organization of the strategies according to connectivity classes as
a by-product of the di?usion of cooperation in the network. Depending on the
parametrization of the game dynamics, we ?nd a smooth transition from cooperation
to defection and a polymorphic state with simultaneous presence of cooperator and
defector hubs, very unusual in coordination games.