In thi
s paper, we an
swer affirmatively an open problem (cf. Theorem
4′ in Ferrero and
Gazzola (J. Differential Equation
s 177 (2001) 494): Let
Ωs/glyphs/BQA.GIF>0 be an open-bounded domain,
Ωs/glyphs/BOC.GIF>RN(N≥5) and a
ssume that
0≤μ<()2−()2, then, for all
λ>0 there exi
st
s a nontrivial
solution with critical level in the range
(0,S<sub>μsub>) for the problem
−Δu−μ=λu+|u|2*−2u in
Ω;
u=0 on
∂Ω.