Symmetry and Collective Fluctuations in Evolutionary Games

by Eric Smith

Overview

Evolutionary game theory has the potential to provide an integrated framework to model many aspects of evolution, development, and ecology. The reliable use of game models, however, requires an understanding of their behaviour when the number of players becomes very large, resulting in the emergence of thermodynamic limits. This book presents methods to derive large-deviations limits for population processes, and apply these to game models illustrating the many roles of symmetry and collective fluctuations in evolutionary dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750311380
Publisher:	Iop Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	04/15/2015
Series:	IOP Expanding Physics
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ERIC SMITH is an author, prolific book blogger, and literary agent from New Jersey, currently living in Philadelphia. Smith cohosts Book Riot's newest podcast, HEY YA, with non-fiction YA author Kelly Jensen. He can regularly be found writing for Book Riot's blog, as well as Barnes & Noble's Teen Reads blog, Paste Magazine, and Publishing Crawl. Smith also has a growing Twitter platform of over 40,000 followers (@ericsmithrocks).