135338 20260217205552.0 doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.167401 sideral 138602 ART-2024-138602 eng Civilini, Andrea Explosive Cooperation in Social Dilemmas on Higher-Order Networks 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Understanding 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 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-23R-FENOL info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es 9.0 2024 PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 9 / 114 = 0.079 2024 Q1 T1 2.856 2024 Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) 2024 Q1 15.6 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Sadekar, Onkar Battiston, Federico Gómez-Gardeñes, Jesús Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5204-1937 Latora, Vito 2003 395 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Física Materia Condensa. Área Física Materia Condensada 132, 16 (2024), 6 pp. Phys. rev. lett. Physical Review Letters 0031-9007 557714 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135338/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 3148553 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135338/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135338 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:41:07 ARTICLE