Stochastically stable equilibrium
- Stochastically stable equilibrium
Infobox equilibrium
name = Stochastically stable equilibrium
subsetof = Evolutionarily stable state
supersetof =
discoverer = Dean Foster, Peyton Young
usedfor = Evolutionary game theory
example = Stag hunt
In game theory, a stochastically stable equilibrium is a refinement of the evolutionarily stable state in evolutionary game theory, proposed by Dean Foster and Peyton Young. An evolutionary stable state S is also stochastically stable if under vanishing noise the probability that the population is in the vicinity of state S does not go to zero.
The concept is extensively used in models of learning in populations, where "noise" is used to model experimentation or replacement of unsuccessful players with new players (random mutation). Over time, as the need for experimentation dies down or the population becomes stable, the population will coverge towards a subset of evolutionarily stable states. Foster and Young have shown that this subset is the set of states with the highest potential.
References
* Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young: "Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics", "Theoretical Population Biology" 38(2), pp. 219–232(1990) [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/foster90stochastic.html Abstract]
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