Absence and presence of Lavrentiev's phenomenon for double phase functionals upon every choice of exponents (Q6143899)

The authors study the problem of the Lavrentiev's phenomenon for the double-phase functional \[ \mathcal{F}[u]=\int_\Omega |\nabla u(x)|^p+a(x)|\nabla u(x)|^q\,dx,\ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n,\ n>1,\ 1\le p,q<\infty,\ a:\Omega\to [0,\infty). \] Main results are theorems on the conditions for existence and non-existence of the Lavrentiev's phenomenon connected with the minimization of the above functional.