“…To some extent, our results in this work offset the scenario 𝑝 ⩽ 𝑠𝑞 that repels the center assumptions on growth exponents 𝑝, 𝑞 in [10,21]. Note that the hypothesis required in (1.5) and the center assumption on growth exponents 𝑝, 𝑞 in [11,22] are mutually exclusive. Finally, let us mention that given the condition 𝑝 ≠ 𝑞, the functional (1.1) is closely related to a large number of anisotropic local or nonlocal problems with nonstandard growth, see, for instance, [2,3,10,18,23,26,35].…”