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

Abstract: We study classes of weights ensuring the absence and presence of the Lavrentiev's phenomenon for double phase functionals upon every choice of exponents. We introduce a new sharp scale for weights for which there is no Lavrentiev's phenomenon up to a counterexample we provide. This scale embraces the sharp range for $\alpha$-H\"older continuous weights. Moreover, it allows excluding the gap for every choice of exponents $q,p>1$.