Chimera states in network-organized public goods games with destructive agents

It is shown that a network-organized metapopulation of cooperators, defectors and destructive agents playing the public goods game with mutations, can collectively reach global synchronization or chimera states. Global synchronization is accompanied by a collective periodic burst of cooperation, whereas

Chimera-like states in modular networks

Inspired by the ancient Greek mythological creature Chimera (χίμαιρα) which had a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail, Abrams and Strogatz [1] coined the term “chimera states” for the counterintuitive self-organized phenomenon in which synchronous and desynchronous