Some qualitative differences between the replicator dynamics of two player and n player games

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1411-1417

  Plank, Manfred ^a  

^a Institut fur Mathematik   (Austria)

Author keywords

Game theory; Invariant tori; n player games; Periodic orbits; Replicator dynamics; Volume preserving fixed point bifurcations; Volume preserving flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043133444     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00202-2     Document Type: Article

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