Spatial chaos in the Nowak-May game in three dimensions

We consider a spatially distributed evolutionary game based on the Prisoner’s Dilemma with agents arranged on a three-dimensional simple cubic lattice. Comparing to two-dimensional arrangements, we find that the larger number of neighbors favors the formation of spatial chaos: the steady state of the game is chaotic unless the payoff parameter is small.

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