Every minimizer of the Weinstein functional has the form
where is the positive radial NLS ground state. The Euler-Lagrange equation first reduces a minimizer to a rescaled ground-state equation; the equality cases in the diamagnetic and rearrangement inequalities give the constant phase, translation, and radial profile.
The sharp inequality implies
Thus energy controls the gradient whenever the mass is strictly below the mass of the NLS ground state.
The NLS ground state is the positive radial solution of
It is, up to phase, translation, and scaling, the optimizer of the Sharp Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality
Consequently
Equality in the sharp inequality occurs precisely for the symmetry orbit of .
Sharp Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
In dimension , the mass-critical sharp inequality is
and equality holds exactly on the phase, translation, and scaling orbit of the NLS ground state . For this becomes .
Weinstein functional 2026-09-28
For , the mass-critical Weinstein functional is
It is invariant under multiplication by a nonzero scalar, spatial dilation, translation, and constant phase. Its positive minimizers are rescalings and translations of the NLS ground state.