Explosive cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks

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Hauptverfasser: Civilini, Andrea, Sadekar, Onkar, Battiston, Federico, Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús, Latora, Vito
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author Civilini, Andrea
Sadekar, Onkar
Battiston, Federico
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
author_facet Civilini, Andrea
Sadekar, Onkar
Battiston, Federico
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
contents Understanding how cooperative behaviours can emerge from competitive interactions is an open problem in biology and social sciences. While interactions are usually modelled as pairwise networks, the units of many real-world systems can also interact in groups of three or more. Here, we introduce a general framework to extend pairwise games to higher-order networks. By studying social dilemmas on hypergraphs with a tunable structure, we find an explosive transition to cooperation triggered by a critical number of higher-order games. The associated bistable regime implies that an initial critical mass of cooperators is also required for the emergence of prosocial behavior. Our results show that higher-order interactions provide a novel explanation for the survival of cooperation.
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spellingShingle Explosive cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks
Civilini, Andrea
Sadekar, Onkar
Battiston, Federico
Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús
Latora, Vito
Physics and Society
Computer Science and Game Theory
Social and Information Networks
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
Understanding how cooperative behaviours can emerge from competitive interactions is an open problem in biology and social sciences. While interactions are usually modelled as pairwise networks, the units of many real-world systems can also interact in groups of three or more. Here, we introduce a general framework to extend pairwise games to higher-order networks. By studying social dilemmas on hypergraphs with a tunable structure, we find an explosive transition to cooperation triggered by a critical number of higher-order games. The associated bistable regime implies that an initial critical mass of cooperators is also required for the emergence of prosocial behavior. Our results show that higher-order interactions provide a novel explanation for the survival of cooperation.
title Explosive cooperation in social dilemmas on higher-order networks
topic Physics and Society
Computer Science and Game Theory
Social and Information Networks
Dynamical Systems
Populations and Evolution
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11475