title: Learning dynamics in public goods games.
abstract: We extend recent analyses of stochastic effects in game dynamical learning to cases of multiplayer games and to games defined on networked structures. By means of an expansion in the noise strength we consider the weak-noise limit and present an analytical computation of spectral properties of fluctuations in multiplayer public goods games. This extends existing work on two-player games. In particular we show that coherent cycles may emerge driven by noise in the adaptation dynamics. These phenomena are not too dissimilar from cyclic strategy switching observed in experiments of behavioral game theory.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Physics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom. alex.bladon@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: Alex J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bladon
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Galla