In this article, we consider the following double-phase problems with Choquard-type nonlinearity:
where , is a parameter, , is a continuous function with critical exponential growth condition, is the Riesz potential with . Under some hypotheses, the existence and concentration behavior of positive solutions are established by variational methods.
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