Positive solutions for singular double phase problems (Q2033252)

This paper deals with the following singular \((p,q)\)-equation \[ \begin{cases} -\Delta_p u -\text{div}\left(\xi(z)|\nabla u|^{q-2}\nabla u\right)=a(z)u^{-\gamma}+\lambda u^{r-1}& \text{in }\Omega,\\ u=0&\text{on }\partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(1<q<p<r<p^*\), \(0<\gamma<1\), \(\lambda >0\), \(\xi \in L^\infty(\Omega)\), \(\xi> 0\) and \(a\in L^\infty(\Omega)\), \(a\geq 0\), \(a\not\equiv 0\). Based on the fibering method along with the Nehari manifold the authors show the existence of \(\hat{\lambda}_0^*>0\) such that for all \(\lambda \in (0,\hat{\lambda}_0^*]\) the problem has at least two positive solutions \(u^*,v^* \in W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\) such that \(\varphi_\lambda(u^*) < 0 <\varphi_\lambda(v^*)\), where \(\varphi_\lambda: W^{1,p}_0(\Omega)\to\mathbb{R}\) is the corresponding energy functional.