The prisoner's dilemma in structured scale-free networks

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/24/245002zbMATH Open1165.91461arXiv0905.2724OpenAlexW3102568728MaRDI QIDQ3637482FDOQ3637482

Authors: Xing Li, Yonghui Wu, Zhihai Rong, Zhongzhi Zhang, Shuigeng Zhou 

Publication date: 10 July 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The conventional wisdom is that scale-free networks are prone to cooperation spreading. In this paper we investigate the cooperative behaviors on the structured scale-free network. On the contrary of the conventional wisdom that scale-free networks are prone to cooperation spreading, the evolution of cooperation is inhibited on the structured scale-free network while performing the prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Firstly, we demonstrate that neither the scale-free property nor the high clustering coefficient is responsible for the inhibition of cooperation spreading on the structured scale-free network. Then we provide one heuristic method to argue that the lack of age correlations and its associated `large-world' behavior in the structured scale-free network inhibit the spread of cooperation. The findings may help enlighten further studies on evolutionary dynamics of the PD game in scale-free networks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2724

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cooperative games (91A12) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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