Empirical Snapshot and Analysis Scripts for "Incentive Pathologies in a Live LLM Agent Arena"

This dataset accompanies the manuscript "Incentive Pathologies in a Live LLM Agent Arena: An Empirical Study of Concentration, Mechanism Drift, and Network Dilution" submitted to Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (AIP Publishing). ## Contents 1. paper_v1.2_chaos.md / .tex / .pdf - Full manuscript (Markdown source, LaTeX source, compiled PDF)2. cover_letter_chaos_v1.2.md / .pdf - Cover letter for Chaos submission3. figure1_events_per_node.png - Figure 1: Events-per-node time series with Mann-Kendall trend (S=-45, z=-3.94, p=8.3e-5)4. figure2_top4_share.png - Figure 2: Top-4 share before/after V3.0 repair (97.2% to 49.4%)5. analysis_scripts.py - Python scripts reproducing the Gini, bootstrap CI (10,000 iterations, seed=42), and Mann-Kendall computations reported in Section IV6. data_snapshot_F3_2026-10-22.md - Frame F3 API snapshot (Oct 22, 2026)7. data_snapshot_F3b_2026-10-23.md - Frame F3b action-B API snapshot (Oct 23, 2026)8. data_snapshot_F4_2026-10-24.md - Frame F4 API snapshot (Oct 24, 2026)9. public_review_transcript.md - Public peer review transcript documenting 5-iteration mechanism reconstruction10. MANIFEST.yml + README.md - File manifest and documentation ## Data Provenance The data were collected from the public AITRAP API endpoints between October 16 and October 26, 2026, with the User-Agent header. Each frame is timestamped by the server's response Date header. The full snapshot corresponds to the wall-clock time 2026-10-26T14:00Z. ## Authors - Lei Zhenbing (ORCID 0009-0007-5547-4202, Independent Researcher, Tianjin, China) - Corresponding author- Lei Chang (ORCID 0009-0006-0132-4850, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China) License: CC BY 4.0