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most citedStatistical physics of human cooperation

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q-bio.PE2026

The mathematical journey of spatial reciprocity

Chaoqian Wang, Xiang Li, Attila Szolnoki

Over the past three decades, evolutionary game theory in structured populations has witnessed explosive progress. Counterintuitive cooperative phenomena discovered in simulations h…

q-bio.PE2026★ 1 cited

Evolutionary dynamics in public goods games with general frequency-dependent returns

Qiushuang Wang, Yuyuan Liu, Xiaojie Chen +1

The public goods game serves as a significant paradigm for investigating the emergence and maintenance of cooperation in conflicting situations. In the traditional public goods gam…

q-bio.PE2026

Punishment in bipartite societies

Sinan Feng, Genjiu Xu, Yu Chen +2

From ant-acacia mutualism to performative conflict resolution among Inuit, dedicated punishments between distinct subsets of a population are widespread and can reshape the evoluti…

q-bio.PE2025★ 27 cited

Coevolutionary dynamics of feedback-evolving games in structured populations

Qiushuang Wang, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

The interdependence between an individual strategy decision and the resulting change of environmental state is often a subtle process. Feedback-evolving games have been a prevalent…

q-bio.PE2024★ 9 cited

When faster rotation is harmful: the competition of alliances with inner blocking mechanism

Attila Szolnoki, Xiaojie Chen

Competitors in an intransitive loop of dominance can form a defensive alliance against an external species. The vitality of this super-structure, however, is jeopardized if we modi…

q-bio.PE2023★ 21 cited

Competition of alliances in a cyclically dominant eight-species population

Junpyo Park, Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki

In a diverse population, where many species are present, competitors can fight for surviving at individual and collective levels. In particular, species, which would beat each othe…

q-bio.PE2022★ 7 cited

Oppressed species can form a winning pair in a multi-species ecosystem

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

The self-protection of alliances against external invaders is a key concept behind the maintenance of biodiversity in the face of natural selection. But since these alliances, whic…

q-bio.PE2022★ 7 cited

Competition among alliances of different sizes

Breno F. de Oliveira, Attila Szolnoki

To understand the biodiversity of an ecosystem cannot be understood by solely analyzing the pair relations of competing species. Instead, we should consider multi-point interaction…

q-bio.PE2021★ 9 cited

Effects of a pestilent species on the stability of cyclically dominant species

D. Bazeia, M. Bongestab, B. F. de Oliveira +1

Cyclic dominance is frequently believed to be a mechanism that maintains diversity of competing species. But this delicate balance could also be fragile if some of the members is w…

q-bio.PE2021★ 11 cited

Environment driven oscillation in an off-lattice May--Leonard model

D. Bazeia, M. J. B. Ferreira, B. F. de Oliveira +1

Cyclic dominance of competing species is an intensively used working hypothesis to explain biodiversity in certain living systems, where the evolutionary selection principle would…

q-bio.PE2021★ 8 cited

Social dilemmas in off-lattice populations

B. F. de Oliveira, A. Szolnoki

Exploring the possible consequences of spatial reciprocity on the evolution of cooperation is an intensively studied research avenue. Related works assumed a certain interaction gr…

q-bio.PE2020★ 12 cited

Breaking unidirectional invasions jeopardizes biodiversity in spatial May-Leonard systems

D. Bazeia, B. F. de Oliveira, J. V. O. Silva +1

Non-transitive dominance and the resulting cyclic loop of three or more competing species provide a fundamental mechanism to explain biodiversity in biological and ecological syste…

q-bio.PE2020★ 9 cited

Equal partners do better in defensive alliances

Marcell Blahota, Istvan Blahota, Attila Szolnoki

Cyclic dominance offers not just a way to maintain biodiversity, but also serves as a sort of defensive alliance against an external invader. Interestingly, a new level of competit…

q-bio.PE2018★ 16 cited

Phase transitions in dependence of apex predator decaying ratio in a cyclic dominant system

D. Bazeia, B. F. de Oliveira, A. Szolnoki

Cyclic dominant systems, like rock-paper-scissors game, are frequently used to explain biodiversity in nature, where mobility, reproduction and intransitive competition are on stag…

q-bio.PE2016★ 57 cited

Biodiversity in models of cyclic dominance is preserved by heterogeneity in site-specific invasion rates

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Global, population-wide oscillations in models of cyclic dominance may result in the collapse of biodiversity due to the accidental extinction of one species in the loop. Previous…

q-bio.PE2015★ 121 cited

Antisocial pool rewarding does not deter public cooperation

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Rewarding cooperation is in many ways expected behaviour from social players. However, strategies that promote antisocial behaviour are also surprisingly common, not just in human…

q-bio.PE2015★ 74 cited

Stability of cooperation under image scoring in group interactions

Heinrich H. Nax, Matjaz Perc, Attila Szolnoki +1

Image scoring sustains cooperation in the repeated two-player prisoner's dilemma through indirect reciprocity, even though defection is the uniquely dominant selfish behaviour in t…