title: Stochastic stability in three-player games.
abstract: Animal behavior and evolution can often be described by game-theoretic models. Although in many situations the number of players is very large, their strategic interactions are usually decomposed into a sum of two-player games. Only recently were evolutionarily stable strategies defined for multi-player games and their properties analyzed [Broom, M., Cannings, C., Vickers, G.T., 1997. Multi-player matrix games. Bull. Math. Biol. 59, 931-952]. Here we study the long-run behavior of stochastic dynamics of populations of randomly matched individuals playing symmetric three-player games. We analyze the stochastic stability of equilibria in games with multiple evolutionarily stable strategies. We also show that, in some games, a population may not evolve in the long run to an evolutionarily stable equilibrium.
authors: Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Warsaw University, ul. Banacha 2, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
authors: Dominik
authors: D
authors: Kamiński
authors: Jacek
authors: J
authors: Miekisz
authors: Marcin
authors: M
authors: Zaborowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005716:Game Theory; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D013269:Stochastic Processes