Cross-domain structural pattern
Shared resource use creates a cooperation dilemma with cleaning costs, contamination risk, and social incentives forming competing pressures. Cleaning cost primarily determines stability of altruistic behavior. The system exhibits multi-stability and hysteresis - small parameter changes can cause abrupt shifts between cooperation and free-riding equilibria.
view paper→Localized perturbations in graph-structured systems induce optimal trajectories that decay exponentially with graph distance from perturbation source. Spatial decay arises from interaction topology: influences propagate through network edges but attenuate geometrically with path length. Graph distance acts as effective spatial dimension governing perturbation propagation, with topology imposing decay rate independently of detailed dynamics.
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