Phase transitions and volunteering in spatial public goods games.

We present a simple yet effective mechanism promoting cooperation under full anonymity by allowing for voluntary participation in public goods games. This natural extension leads to "rock-scissors-paper"-type cyclic dominance of the three strategies, cooperate, defect, and loner. In spatial settings with players arranged on a regular lattice, this results in interesting dynamical properties and intriguing spatiotemporal patterns. In particular, variations of the value of the public good leads to transitions between one-, two-, and three-strategy states which either are in the class of directed percolation or show interesting analogies to Ising-type models. Although volunteering is incapable of stabilizing cooperation, it efficiently prevents successful spreading of selfish behavior.

• Publication year

  2002

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2002-07-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.118101arXiv cond-mat/0207569PMID 12225171
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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