Competitive agents in a market: Statistical physics of the minority game

A brief review is presented of the minority game, a simple frustrated many-body system stimulated by considerations of a market of competitive speculative agents. Its cooperative behaviour exhibits phase transitions and both ergodic and non-ergodic regimes. It provides novel challenges to statistica...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherrington, D
Format: Conference item
Published: 2007