TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gros, Claudius
T1  - Collective strategy condensation towards class-separated societies
T2  - The European physical journal. B
N2  - In physics, the wavefunctions of bosonic particles collapse when the system undergoes a Bose–Einstein condensation. In game theory, the strategy of an agent describes the probability to engage in a certain course of action. Strategies are expected to differ in competitive situations, namely when there is a penalty to do the same as somebody else. We study what happens when agents are interested how they fare not only in absolute terms, but also relative to others. This preference, denoted envy, is shown to induce the emergence of distinct social classes via a collective strategy condensation transition. Members of the lower class pursue identical strategies, in analogy to the Bose–Einstein condensation, with the upper class remaining individualistic.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/69468
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-694684
SN  - 1434-6036
N1  - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
VL  - 95
IS  - art. 98
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -