2016/10/31 by Nikos E. Kouvaris, Rubén J. Requejo, Ruben J. Requejo +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Biology #Chimera (genetics) #Computer science #Economics #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Genetics #Mathematics #Metapopulation #Microeconomics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Physics #Population #Public good #Public goods game #Sociology #Statistical physics #Topology (electrical circuits) #math.DS #nlin.AO #nlin.CD #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.4971974
published as Chaos 26, 123108 (2016)
arxiv created 2016/10/31 · openalex publication_date 2016/12/01 · arxiv updated 2016/12/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We found that a network-organized metapopulation of cooperators, defectors, and destructive agents playing the public goods game with mutations can collectively reach global synchronization or chimera states. Global synchronization is accompanied by a collective periodic burst of cooperation, whereas chimera states reflect the tendency of the networked metapopulation to be fragmented in clusters of synchronous and incoherent bursts of cooperation. Numerical simulations have shown that the system's dynamics switches between these two steady states through a first order transition. Depending on the parameters determining the dynamical and topological properties, chimera states with different numbers of coherent and incoherent clusters are observed. Our results present the first systematic study of chimera states and their characterization in the context of evolutionary game theory. This provides a valuable insight into the details of their occurrence, extending the relevance of such states to natural and social systems.