We consider a double phase (unbalanced growth) Dirichlet problem with a Carathéodory reaction which is superlinear in x but without satisfying the AR-condition. Using the symmetric mountain pass theorem, we produce a whole sequence of distinct bounded solutions which diverge to infinity.
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