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Query: Single Equalizer Strategy with no Information Transfer for Conflict
  Escalation   In an iterated two-person game, for instance prisoner's dilemma or the
snowdrift game, there exist strategies that force the payoffs of the opponents
to be equal. These equalizer strategies form a subset of the more general
zero-determinant strategies that unilaterally set the payoff of an opponent. A
challenge in the attempts to understand the role of these strategies in the
evolution of animal behavior is the lack of iterations in the fights for mating
opportunities or territory control. We show that an arbitrary two-parameter
strategy may possess a corresponding equalizer strategy which produces the same
result: statistics of the fight outcomes in the contests with mutants are the
same for each of these two strategies. Therefore, analyzing only the equalizer
strategy space may be sufficient to predict animal behavior if nature, indeed,
reduces (marginalizes) complex strategies to equalizer strategy space. The
work's main finding is that there is a unique equalizer strategy that predicts
fight outcomes without mutual cooperation. The lack of mutual cooperation is a
common trait in conflict escalation contests that generally require a clear
winner. In addition this unique strategy does not assess information of the
opponent's state. The method bypasses the standard analysis of evolutionary
stability. The results fit well the observations of combat between male bowl
and doily spiders and support an empirical assumption of the war of attrition
model that the species use only information regarding their own state during
conflict escalation.

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