Taking a shower in Youth Hostels: risks and delights of heterogeneity

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2008-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1573v2

Physics

Physics and Society

13 pages, 7 figures

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Tuning one's shower in some hotels may turn into a challenging coordination game with imperfect information. The temperature sensitivity increases with the number of agents, making the problem possibly unlearnable. Because there is in practice a finite number of possible tap positions, identical agents are unlikely to reach even approximately their favorite water temperature. We show that a population of agents with homogeneous strategies is evolutionary unstable, which gives insights into the emergence of heterogeneity, the latter being tempting but risky.

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