{
  "id": "1202.3231",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2012-02-15T08:39:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-08-19T03:58:36.000Z",
  "title": "Metastability and anomalous fixation in evolutionary games on scale-free networks",
  "authors": [
    "Michael Assaf",
    "Mauro Mobilia"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett 109, 188701 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.188701",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "q-bio.PE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the influence of complex graphs on the metastability and fixation properties of a set of evolutionary processes. In the framework of evolutionary game theory, where the fitness and selection are frequency-dependent and vary with the population composition, we analyze the dynamics of snowdrift games (characterized by a metastable coexistence state) on scale-free networks. Using an effective diffusion theory in the weak selection limit, we demonstrate how the scale-free structure affects the system's metastable state and leads to anomalous fixation. In particular, we analytically and numerically show that the probability and mean time of fixation are characterized by stretched exponential behaviors with exponents depending on the network's degree distribution.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2012-08-19T03:58:36.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "89.75.Hc",
      "02.50.Le",
      "64.60.aq",
      "87.23.Kg"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "scale-free networks",
      "anomalous fixation",
      "metastability",
      "evolutionary game theory",
      "scale-free structure affects"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 109,
      "number": 18,
      "pages": 188701
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvL.109r8701A"
    }
  }
}