UC Irvine

We study the following Brézis–Nirenberg problem (Comm Pure Appl Math 36:437–477, 1983): $$-\Delta u=\lambda u+ |u|^{2^\ast-2}u, \quad u\in H_0^1(\Omega),$$where Ω is a bounded smooth domain of R N (N ≧ 7) and 2* is the critical Sobolev exponent. We show that, for each fixed λ > 0, this problem has infinitely many sign-changing solutions. In particular, if λ ≧ λ1, the Brézis–Nirenberg problem has and only has infinitely many sign-changing solutions except zero. The main tool is the estimates of Morse indices of nodal solutions.