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Chin. Phys. B, 2018, Vol. 27(6): 060203    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/6/060203
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Stochastic evolutionary public goods game with first and second order costly punishments in finite populations

Ji Quan(全吉)1, Yu-Qing Chu(储育青)2, Wei Liu(刘伟)3, Xian-Jia Wang(王先甲)4, Xiu-Kang Yang(阳修康)1
1 School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;
2 School of Science, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;
3 School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;
4 School of Economics and Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Abstract  We study the stochastic evolutionary public goods game with punishment in a finite size population. Two kinds of costly punishments are considered, i.e., first-order punishment in which only the defectors are punished, and second-order punishment in which both the defectors and the cooperators who do not punish the defective behaviors are punished. We focus on the stochastic stable equilibrium of the system. In the population, the evolutionary process of strategies is described as a finite state Markov process. The evolutionary equilibrium of the system and its stochastic stability are analyzed by the limit distribution of the Markov process. By numerical experiments, our findings are as follows. (i) The first-order costly punishment can change the evolutionary dynamics and equilibrium of the public goods game, and it can promote cooperation only when both the intensity of punishment and the return on investment parameters are large enough. (ii) Under the first-order punishment, the further imposition of the second-order punishment cannot change the evolutionary dynamics of the system dramatically, but can only change the probability of the system to select the equilibrium points in the “C+P” states, which refer to the co-existence states of cooperation and punishment. The second-order punishment has limited roles in promoting cooperation, except for some critical combinations of parameters. (iii) When the system chooses “C+P” states with probability one, the increase of the punishment probability under second-order punishment will further increase the proportion of the “P” strategy in the “C+P” states.
Keywords:  public goods games      stochastic stable equilibrium      punishment      finite population  
Received:  28 November 2017      Revised:  10 February 2018      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  02.50.Le (Decision theory and game theory)  
  02.50.Ga (Markov processes)  
  05.45.Pq (Numerical simulations of chaotic systems)  
  05.65.+b (Self-organized systems)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.71501149 and 71231007),the Soft Science Project of Hubei Province,China (Grant No.2017ADC122),and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China (Grant No.WUT:2017VI070).
Corresponding Authors:  Ji Quan, Yu-Qing Chu     E-mail:  quanji123@163.com;chuyuqing@whut.edu.cn

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Ji Quan(全吉), Yu-Qing Chu(储育青), Wei Liu(刘伟), Xian-Jia Wang(王先甲), Xiu-Kang Yang(阳修康) Stochastic evolutionary public goods game with first and second order costly punishments in finite populations 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 060203

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