Concentration Phenomena for (p, N)-Laplace Equation Under Discontinuous Nonlinearities and Penalization Method

In this paper, we investigate the existence and concentration of solutions to a (p, N)-Laplace equation in RN involving a discontinuous nonlinearity and critical exponential growth. To establish the existence of solutions, we employ a penalization technique in the sense of Del Pino and Felmer adapted to a locally Lipschitz functional. Furthermore, by combining variational methods with Moser-type iteration techniques, we obtain the concentration behavior of the solutions. Our results contribute to the study of nonlinear elliptic problems with irregular nonlinearities and critical growth phenomena. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Brazilian Mathematical Society 2026.