An Analysis of the Replicator Dynamics for an Asymmetric Hawk-Dove Game

We analyze, using a dynamical systems approach, the replicator dynamics for the asymmetric Hawk-Dove game in which there is a set of four pure strategies with arbitrary payoffs. We give a full account of the equilibrium points and their stability and derive the Nash equilibria. We also give a detail...

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Main Authors: Ikjyot Singh Kohli, Michael C. Haslam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:International Journal of Differential Equations
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8781570
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Summary:We analyze, using a dynamical systems approach, the replicator dynamics for the asymmetric Hawk-Dove game in which there is a set of four pure strategies with arbitrary payoffs. We give a full account of the equilibrium points and their stability and derive the Nash equilibria. We also give a detailed account of the local bifurcations that the system exhibits based on choices of the typical Hawk-Dove parameters v and c. We also give details on the connections between the results found in this work and those of the standard two-strategy Hawk-Dove game. We conclude the paper with some examples of numerical simulations that further illustrate some global behaviours of the system.
ISSN:1687-9643
1687-9651