000135338 001__ 135338 000135338 005__ 20250923084419.0 000135338 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.167401 000135338 0248_ $$2sideral$$a138602 000135338 037__ $$aART-2024-138602 000135338 041__ $$aeng 000135338 100__ $$aCivilini, Andrea 000135338 245__ $$aExplosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks 000135338 260__ $$c2024 000135338 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000135338 5203_ $$aUnderstanding how cooperative behaviors can emerge from competitive interactions is an open problem in biology and social sciences. While interactions are usually modeled as pairwise networks, the units of many real-world systems can also interact in groups of three or more. Here, we introduce a general framework to extend pairwise games to higher-order networks. By studying social dilemmas on hypergraphs with a tunable structure, we find an explosive transition to cooperation triggered by a critical number of higher-order games. The associated bistable regime implies that an initial critical mass of cooperators is also required for the emergence of prosocial behavior. Our results show that higher-order interactions provide a novel explanation for the survival of cooperation 000135338 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-23R-FENOL$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00 000135338 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000135338 590__ $$a9.0$$b2024 000135338 592__ $$a2.856$$b2024 000135338 591__ $$aPHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY$$b9 / 114 = 0.079$$c2024$$dQ1$$eT1 000135338 593__ $$aPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)$$c2024$$dQ1 000135338 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000135338 700__ $$aSadekar, Onkar 000135338 700__ $$aBattiston, Federico 000135338 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5204-1937$$aGómez-Gardeñes, Jesús$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000135338 700__ $$aLatora, Vito 000135338 7102_ $$12003$$2395$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Física Materia Condensa.$$cÁrea Física Materia Condensada 000135338 773__ $$g132, 16 (2024), 6 pp.$$pPhys. rev. lett.$$tPhysical Review Letters$$x0031-9007 000135338 8564_ $$s557714$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135338/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint 000135338 8564_ $$s3148553$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135338/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint 000135338 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:135338$$particulos$$pdriver 000135338 951__ $$a2025-09-22-14:34:55 000135338 980__ $$aARTICLE