
Game Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Stability
Springer (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. February 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 145 pages
978-3-540-50766-6 (ISBN)
Description
These Lecture Notes arose from discussions we had over a working paper written by the first author in fall 1987. We decided then to write a short paper about the basic structure of evolutionary stability and found ourselves ending up with a book manuscript. Parts of the material contained herein were presented in a seminar at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Vienna, as well as at a workshop on evolutionary game theory in Bielefeld. The final version of the manuscript has certainly benefitted from critical comments and suggestions by the participants of both the seminar and the workshop. Thanks are also due to S. Bomze-de Barba, R. Burger, G. Danninger, J. Hofbauer, R. Selten, K. Sigmund, G. Stiastny and F. Weising. The co-operation of W. Muller from Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, is gratefully acknowledged. Vienna, November 1988 Immanuel M. Bomze Benedikt M. Potscher III Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Strategies and payoffs 5 2. 1. A general setting for evolutionary game theory 6 2. 2. Mixed strategies and population games 8 2. 3. Finite number of strategies . . . . . 13 2. 4. Infinitely many (pure) strategies 15 2. 5. Structured populations: asymmetric contests and multitype games 17 2. 6. Additional remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3. Evolutionary stability 25 3. 1. Definition of evolutionary stability 25 3. 2. Evolutionary stability and solution concepts in classical game theory 30 3. 3. Conditions for evolutionary stability based on the normal cone 31 3. 4.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VI, 145 p.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-50766-6 (9783540507666)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-45660-2
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Introduction.- Strategies and payoffs.- Evolutionary stability.- Global invasion barriers.- Games with bilinear average mean payoff.- Mixed strategies.- Population games.- Replicator dynamics.- Appendix.- References.- List of symbols.