The aim of this paper is to study a degenerate double-phase parabolic problem
with strongly nonlinear source under Dirichlet boundary conditions, proving
the existence of a non-negative periodic weak solution. Our proof is based
on the Leray-Schauder topological degree, which poses many problems for this
type of equations, but has been overcome by using various techniques or
well-known theorems. The system considered is a possible model for problems
where the studied entity has different growth coefficients, p and q in our
case, in different domains.