Compulsory persistent cooperation in continuous public goods games

Abstract

The public goods game (PGG), where players either contribute an amount to the common pool or do nothing, is a paradigm for exploring cooperative behaviors in biological systems, economic communities and other social systems. In many situations, including climate game and charity donations, any contribution, however large or small, should be welcome. Consequently, the conventional PGG is extended to a PGG with continuous strategy space, which still cannot escape the tragedy of commons without any enforcing mechanisms. Here we propose the persistent cooperation investment mechanisms based on continuous PGG, including single-group games, multi-group games with even investment, non-even investment and non-even investment with preference. We aim to reveal how these investment styles promote the average cooperation level in the absence of any other enforcing mechanisms. Simulations indicate that the multi-group game outperforms the single-group game. Among the multi-group game, non-even investment is superior to even investment, but inferior to non-even investment with preference. Our results may provide an explanation to the emergence of cooperative actions in continuous phenotypic traits based on inner competition and self-management without extrinsic enforcing mechanisms.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2019.121767
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Funding Information: This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 61374183 , 51535005 ), the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, China ( MCMS-I-0418K01 , MCMS-I-0418Y01 ), the Fundamental Resear
Additional Information: © 2019, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (61374183, 51535005), the Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures (MCMS-I-0418K01, MCMS-I-0418Y01), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (NC2018001, NP2019301, NJ2019002).
Uncontrolled Keywords: Evolution of cooperation,Evolutionary game theory,Public goods game,Statistics and Probability,Condensed Matter Physics
Publication ISSN: 1873-2119
Last Modified: 26 Feb 2024 08:31
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2019 07:42
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2019-10-01
Published Online Date: 2019-06-11
Accepted Date: 2019-05-06
Authors: Li, Yan
Liu, Xinsheng
Claussen, Jens Christian (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-9870-4924)

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