Harnack-type estimates for nonlocal double phase functionals

Abstract

We establish Harnack-type inequalities for local minimizers of nonlocal double phase functionals, involving an explicit two-radius positive-part tail and a negative far-field tail. The key difficulty is the mismatch between the natural \((p,q)\)-growth scales in the available modular supremum estimate and the low integrability exponent provided by the weak Harnack inequality. To overcome this obstacle, we establish a concentric modular estimate and derive from it a local upper estimate valid for every integrability exponent. To the best of our knowledge, our results provide the first Harnack-type theory for such nonlocal double phase functionals under the natural structural conditions.