On a Harnack inequality for the elliptic \((p,q)\)-Laplacian (Q512515)

A Harnack-type inequality is derived for nonnegative solutions of the nonlinear elliptic equation \[ \operatorname{div}\left(|\nabla u|^{p(x)-2}\nabla u \right)=0 \] given in a domain \(\Omega\in R^n\), \(n\geq 2\) having nonempty intersection with the hyperplane \(\Sigma=\{x: x_n=0\}\) and \[ p(x)=p,\quad x_n<0, \] \[ p(x)=q,\quad x_n>0, \] where \(1<q<p\). Examples are given showing that the classical Harnack inequality does not hold in this case.