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The cost of noise: Stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in social dilemma experiments by Salahshour, Mohammad, Oberhauser, Vincent, Smerlak, Matteo

“…Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across social and biological sciences. One possible…”
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The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes by Hatton, Ian A., McCann, Kevin S., Fryxell, John M., Davies, T. Jonathan, Smerlak, Matteo, Sinclair, Anthony R. E., Loreau, Michel

“…Ecosystems exhibit surprising regularities in structure and function across terrestrial and aquatic biomes worldwide. We assembled a global data set for 2260…”
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aRNAque: an evolutionary algorithm for inverse pseudoknotted RNA folding inspired by Lévy flights by Merleau, Nono S C, Smerlak, Matteo

“…We study in this work the inverse folding problem for RNA, which is the discovery of sequences that fold into given target secondary structures. We implement a…”
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Diversity enables the jump towards cooperation for the Traveler’s Dilemma by Ramírez, María Alejandra, Smerlak, Matteo, Traulsen, Arne, Jost, Jürgen

“…Social dilemmas are situations in which collective welfare is at odds with individual gain. One widely studied example, due to the conflict it poses between…”
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RAFFT: Efficient prediction of RNA folding pathways using the fast Fourier transform by Opuu, Vaitea, Merleau, Nono S. C, Messow, Vincent, Smerlak, Matteo

“…We propose a novel heuristic to predict RNA secondary structure formation pathways that has two components: (i) a folding algorithm and (ii) a kinetic ansatz…”
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Parameters and determinants of responses to selection in antibody libraries by Schulz, Steven, Boyer, Sébastien, Smerlak, Matteo, Cocco, Simona, Monasson, Rémi, Nizak, Clément, Rivoire, Olivier

“…The sequences of antibodies from a given repertoire are highly diverse at few sites located on the surface of a genome-encoded larger scaffold. The scaffold is…”
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Why are viral genomes so fragile? The bottleneck hypothesis by Merleau, Nono S. C, Pénisson, Sophie, Gerrish, Philip J, Elena, Santiago F, Smerlak, Matteo

“…If they undergo new mutations at each replication cycle, why are RNA viral genomes so fragile, with most mutations being either strongly deleterious or lethal?…”
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Mapping Systemic Risk: Critical Degree and Failures Distribution in Financial Networks by Smerlak, Matteo, Stoll, Brady, Gupta, Agam, Magdanz, James S

“…The financial crisis illustrated the need for a functional understanding of systemic risk in strongly interconnected financial structures. Dynamic processes on…”
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A non-equilibrium formulation of food security resilience by Smerlak, Matteo, Vaitla, Bapu

“…Resilience, the ability to recover from adverse events, is of fundamental importance to food security. This is especially true in poor countries, where basic…”
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Perturbation theory without power series: Iterative construction of non-analytic operator spectra by Smerlak, Matteo

“…Abstract It is well known that quantum-mechanical perturbation theory often gives rise to divergent series that require proper resummation. Here I discuss…”
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Quasi-species evolution maximizes genotypic reproductive value (not fitness or flatness) by Smerlak, Matteo

“…•Quasi-species dynamics is formulated as a Markov process in genotype space.•Quasi-species dynamics is shown to maximise genotypic reproductive value, and not…”
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Natural Selection beyond Life? A Workshop Report by Charlat, Sylvain, Ariew, André, Bourrat, Pierrick, Ferreira Ruiz, María, Heams, Thomas, Huneman, Philippe, Krishna, Sandeep, Lachmann, Michael, Lartillot, Nicolas, Le Sergeant d'Hendecourt, Louis, Malaterre, Christophe, Nghe, Philippe, Rajon, Etienne, Rivoire, Olivier, Smerlak, Matteo, Zeravcic, Zorana

“…Natural selection is commonly seen not just as an explanation for adaptive evolution, but as the inevitable consequence of “heritable variation in fitness…”
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Intermittency as metastability: A predictive approach to evolution in rugged landscapes by Smerlak, Matteo

“…Many systems across the sciences evolve through the interaction of multiplicative growth and diffusive transport. In the presence of disorder, these opposing…”
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Entanglement entropy and negative energy in two dimensions by Bianchi, Eugenio, Smerlak, Matteo

“…It is well known that quantum effects can produce negative energy densities, though for limited times. Here we show in the context of two-dimensional conformal…”
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Put defence money into planetary emergencies, urge Nobel winners by Smerlak, Matteo, Rovelli, Carlo

“…Letter to the Editor…”
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Thermodynamics of inequalities: From precariousness to economic stratification by Smerlak, Matteo

“…Growing economic inequalities are observed in several countries throughout the world. Following Pareto, the power-law structure of these inequalities has been…”
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Natural Selection as Coarsening by Smerlak, Matteo

“…Analogies between evolutionary dynamics and statistical mechanics, such as Fisher’s second-law-like “fundamental theorem of natural selection” and Wright’s…”
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Limiting fitness distributions in evolutionary dynamics by Smerlak, Matteo, Youssef, Ahmed

“…Natural selection works on variation in fitness, but how should we measure “variation” to predict the rate of future evolution? Fisher's fundamental theorem of…”
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Diffusion in curved spacetimes by Smerlak, Matteo

“…Using simple kinematical arguments, we derive the Fokker-Planck equation for diffusion processes in curved spacetimes. In the case of pure Brownian motion,…”
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New perspectives on Hawking radiation by Smerlak, Matteo, Singh, Suprit

“…We develop an adiabatic formalism to study the Hawking phenomenon from the perspective of Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving along nonstationary, nonasymptotic…”
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