Lavrentiev gap for some classes of generalized Orlicz functions (Q2019317)

The authors investigate optimal conditions separating the regular case from the one with Lavrentiev gap for the borderline case of double phase potentials with one saddle point. They study integrands of the form \[ \Phi_{p,\alpha,\beta}(x,t)\sim t^p \log^{-\beta}(e+t)+a(x)t^p \log^\alpha (e+t)\, , \] where \(a\) is a nonnegative bounded weight. The main result of the paper consists of a description of the checkerboard-type geometry for the borderline case of the potential \(\Phi_{d,\alpha,\beta}\), where \(d\) is the dimension, as well as necessary and sufficient conditions on \(\alpha,\beta\) for the density of smooth functions in the associated Sobolev-Orlicz space.