For a smooth radial function that decays at infinity,
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality therefore yields the Radial Sobolev inequality
up to the harmless common normalization of surface measure. Taking the supremum over gives the claimed estimate; density extends it from smooth radial functions to every .
Suppose that . Since and ,
The Radial Sobolev inequality and Mass conservation for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation give
Because , Young inequality and a sufficiently large fixed absorb this term into the left side of the estimate from part 5. The annular term is at most . Using the uniform lower bound from part 2 and enlarging once more yields
Since , two integrations give
The right-hand side is negative for large , contradicting . Hence the maximal forward lifespan is finite: .
Let be bounded in . After passing to a subsequence it converges weakly in , while the Rellich-Kondrachov compactness theorem gives strong convergence on every bounded ball. The Radial Sobolev inequality gives uniformly
The same estimate applies to the weak limit. Choosing large and then using local compactness proves strong convergence in . Hence
is compact.