Survival of dominated strategies under evolutionary dynamics

By Josef Hofbauer, William H. Sandholm. 2011

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We prove that any deterministic evolutionary dynamic satisfying four mild requirements fails to eliminate strictly dominated strategies in some games. We also show that existing elimination results for evolutionary dynamics are not robust to small changes in the specifications of the dynamics. Numerical analysis reveals that dominated strategies can persist at nontrivial frequencies even when the level of domination is not small.

Subfields: Genetics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Genetics

1. Karl Sigmund
2. Scott E. Page
3. Russell Golman

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Karl Sigmund
2. Josef Hofbauer
3. Scott E. Page
4. Russell Golman
5. William H. Sandholm

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Karl Sigmund
2. Josef Hofbauer
3. Matjaz Perc
4. Attila Szolnoki
5. Martin A. Nowak
6. Russell Golman
7. Scott E. Page
8. Jorge M. Pacheco

Citations in the corpus

• Evolutionary game dynamics (2011, background): “Furthermore, extinction versus survival of dominated strategies under these dynamics [3] will be discussed.”