Nodal solutions of the Brezis-Nirenberg problem in dimension 6

Abstract

We show that the classical Brezis-Nirenberg problem $$ -\Delta u=u|u| + \lambda u\ \hbox{in}\ \Omega, u=0\ \hbox{on}\ \partial\Omega, $$ when $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\mathbb R^6$ has a sign-changing solution which blows-up at a point in $\Omega$ as $\lambda$ approaches a suitable value $\lambda_0>0.$