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Group preferential selection promotes cooperation in spatial public goods game

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  • Hong-Bin Zhang

    (School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215006, P. R. China)

  • Hong Wang

    (School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, P. R. China)

Abstract

We study the evolution of cooperation in public goods games on the square lattice, focusing on the co-player learning mechanism based on the preferential selection that are brought about by wealthy information of groups where participants collect and search for potential imitators from those groups. We find that co-player learning mechanism based on the choice of weighted group can lead to the promotion of public cooperation by means of the information of wealthy groups that is obtained by participants, and after that the partial choice of public goods groups is enhanced with the tunable preferential parameter. Our results highlight that the learning interactions is not solely confined to the restricted connection among players, but co-players of wealthy groups have the opportunity to be as a role model in the promotion of cooperative evolution. Moreover, we also find the size of learning affects the choice of distant players, cooperators (defectors) having more paths to exploit the phalanx of opponents to survive when the value of preferential parameter is small. Besides, the extinction thresholds of cooperators and defectors for different values of noise are also investigated.

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  • Hong-Bin Zhang & Hong Wang, 2014. "Group preferential selection promotes cooperation in spatial public goods game," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(11), pages 1-12.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:25:y:2014:i:11:n:s0129183114500624
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183114500624
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    1. Deng, Yunsheng & Zhang, Jihui, 2021. "The role of the preferred neighbor with the expected payoff on cooperation in spatial public goods game under optimal strategy selection mechanism," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 584(C).
    2. Xie, Kai & Liu, Xingwen & Wang, Huazhang & Jiang, Yulian, 2023. "Multi-heterogeneity public goods evolutionary game on lattice," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    3. Xie, Kai & Liu, Xingwen & Chen, Hao & Yang, Jun, 2022. "Preferential selection and expected payoff drive cooperation in spatial voluntary public goods game," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 605(C).

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