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A Brief Survey of the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game and Its Potential Use in Biology

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Prisoners’ Dilemma is a well-known game in game theory with many variations and applications in a number of fields. The addition of quantum strategies in this game opens up new possibilities and changes the equilibria of the game significantly.

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Kastampolidou, K., Nikiforos, M.N., Andronikos, T. (2020). A Brief Survey of the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game and Its Potential Use in Biology. In: Vlamos, P. (eds) GeNeDis 2018. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32622-7_29

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