Decentralized Competition Produces Nonlinear Dynamics Akin to Klinotaxis

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(a) System reorientation as it moves toward the target. The angle ϕ indicates the change in the velocity direction in one timestep, while is the angle between and . The sign in the angles follows the right-hand rule. (b) Our model’s results for the average dependence of on for and . Inset shows the effect of noise on the global outcome information: specifically, each agent has a probability of getting wrong information about the winning group. For these cases, the population is set as agents. (c) Same as (b) but looking at a different number of agents, , for and . For all cases .

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