Temporal higher-order interactions facilitate the evolution of cooperation

Abstract

Motivated by the vital progress of modeling higher-order interactions by hypernetworks, where a link connects more than two individuals, we study the evolution of cooperation on temporal hypernetworks. We find that temporal hypernetworks may promote cooperation compared with their static counterparts. Our results offer new insights into the impact of network temporality in higher-order interactions on understanding the evolution of cooperation, suggesting traditional networks based on pairwise or static interactions may underestimate the potential of local interactions to foster cooperation.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure