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Chimera states in a network-organized public goods game with destructive agents
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We found that a network-organized metapopulation of cooperators, defectors, and destructive agents playing the public goods game with mutations can collectively reach global synchronization or chimera states. Global synchronization is accompanied by a collective periodic burst of cooperation, whereas chimera states reflect the tendency of the networked metapopulation to be fragmented in clusters of synchronous and incoherent bursts of cooperation. Numerical simulations have shown that the system's dynamics switches between these two steady states through a first order transition. Depending on the parameters determining the dynamical and topological properties, chimera states with different numbers of coherent and incoherent clusters are observed. Our results present the first systematic study of chimera states and their characterization in the context of evolutionary game theory. This provides a valuable insight into the details of their occurrence, extending the relevance of such states to natural and social systems. Published by AIP Publishing.
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KOUVARIS, Nikos E., et al. Chimera states in a network-organized public goods game with destructive agents. Chaos. 2016. Vol. 26, num. 12, pags. 123108-1 -123108-7. ISSN 1054-1500. [consulted: 6 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/119624