For real , differentiation under the integral gives
The ground-state equation and integration by parts reduce this to
In particular, along the amplitude direction the derivative is . Hence has negative energy for every sufficiently small , while
when is chosen small enough. The ground state has finite variance, so negative-energy blowup for the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation shows that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time.
Virial identity Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-11-05
For a sufficiently regular solution of the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with finite variance, the variance and its first derivative are
A second differentiation and integration by parts give the virial identity
These constants use Laplacian coefficient one in the evolution equation. Energy conservation makes the second derivative constant. If the energy is negative, the resulting quadratic expression for eventually becomes negative, contradicting its definition as a nonnegative integral; this proves negative-energy blowup for the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation under the finite-variance hypotheses.
The weighted moment condition is additional to an H1 norm bound. A localized virial identity replaces the unbounded weight by a smooth cutoff when only tail control is available.