Symmetry and Collective Fluctuations in Evolutionary Games Contributor(s): Smith, Eric (Author), Krishnamurthy, Supriya (Author) |
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ISBN: 075031138X ISBN-13: 9780750311380 Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing OUR PRICE: $151.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Science | Life Sciences - Evolution |
Dewey: 530.1 |
Series: Iop Expanding Physics |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 7" W x 10" (1.41 lbs) 244 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Evolutionary game theory has the potential to provide an integrated framework to model many aspects of evolution, development, and ecology. The reliable use of game models, however, requires an understanding of their behaviour when the number of players becomes very large, resulting in the emergence of thermodynamic limits. This behaviour is controlled by the symmetries that characterize the game, and the approach to the thermodynamic limit is governed by collective fluctuations in the actions of the players. In this book, the authors present methods to derive large-deviations limits for population processes, and apply these to game models illustrating the many roles of symmetry and collective fluctuations in evolutionary dynamics. |