Discrete evolutionary birth-death processes and their large population limits

Stochastic Models

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 388-412

  Puhalskii, Anatolii ^a,b   Simon, Burton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Diffusion limits; Evolutionary game theory; Fluid limits; Iterated prisoner's dilemma; Reactive strategies

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION LIMITS; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; FLUID LIMITS; ITERATED PRISONER'S DILEMMA; REACTIVE STRATEGIES;

BIOLOGY; GAME THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84864721170     PISSN: 15326349     EISSN: 15324214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326349.2012.699752     Document Type: Article

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