Cycle frequency in standard Rock-Paper-Scissors games: Evidence from experimental economics

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 392, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4997-5005

  Xu, Bin ^a,b,c   Zhou, Hai Jun ^c   Wang, Zhijian ^b,c  

^a ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Cycle; Evolutionary trajectory; Population dynamics; Rock Paper Scissors game; Social state

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DYNAMICS; TOOLS; TRAJECTORIES;

CLASSICAL GAME THEORY; CYCLE; EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM MODELING; SOCIAL STATE;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84883134086     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.06.039     Document Type: Article

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