Double phase problems with competing potentials: concentration and multiplication of ground states (Q2152866)

In this paper, the authors establish concentration and multiplicity properties of ground state solutions to the a perturbed double phase problem with two competing potentials, \(V\) and \(K\), involving the the \(p\)-Laplacian operator \(\Delta_p u = \textrm{div}(|\nabla u|^{s-2} \nabla u)\). Under some hypotheses, using topological and variational tools from Nehari manifold analysis and Ljusternik-Schnirelmann category theory, they study the existence of positive ground state solutions and the relation between the number of positive solutions and the topology of the set where one of the two potentials attains its global minimum and the other attains its global maximum.