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q-bio.PE2021★ 10 cited
Diffusion approximations in population genetics and the rate of Muller's ratchet
Camila Bräutigam, Matteo Smerlak
Diffusion theory is a central tool of modern population genetics, yielding simple expressions for fixation probabilities and other quantities that are not easily derived from the u…
physics.soc-ph2021★ 9 cited
The cost of noise: stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments
Mohammad Salahshour, Vincent Oberhauser, Matteo Smerlak
Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer pun…
quant-ph2021★ 1 cited
Perturbation theory without power series: iterative construction of non-analytic operator spectra
Matteo Smerlak
It is well known that quantum-mechanical perturbation theory often give rise to divergent series that require proper resummation. Here I discuss simple ways in which these divergen…