Symmetry Properties of the Large-Deviation Function of the Social Rotation in Laboratory Population Games

5 Pages Posted: 23 Jan 2012

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Bin Xu

School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University

Zhijian Wang

Zhejiang University - Experimental Social Science Laboratory

Date Written: January 20, 2012

Abstract

Using the parallel concepts and methods on the granular rod's spontaneous motion (PRL 106, 118001, 2011 [1]), in the observable (relative angular momentum) of the laboratory social evolution processes around the Nash equilibrium in the strategy space, we evaluate the large-deviation function (LDF) and its symmetry properties. The data comes from 19 laboratory random matching repeated two-population 2 × 2 experimental economics games with different payoff matrix and population sizes. Main result is: in the stochastic evolutionary processes of the laboratory population games, on the symmetry properties of the LDF, the social and the natural systems are of indifferent.

Keywords: experimental economics, fluctuation theorem, game theory, social dynamics, stochastic processes

Suggested Citation

Xu, Bin and Wang, Zhijian, Symmetry Properties of the Large-Deviation Function of the Social Rotation in Laboratory Population Games (January 20, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1988985 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1988985

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