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Normalize a minimizing sequence so that its $L^2$ norm and gradient norm are fixed. Symmetric decreasing rearrangement does not increase the gradient norm and preserves every $L^p$ norm, while radial compactness prevents translation loss. A weakly convergent subsequence therefore converges strongly in the nonlinear $L^{2+4/d}$ norm and yields a nonnegative minimizer.

By the two invariances from part 1, normalize a minimizing sequence $(u_n)$ so thatReplacing $u_n$ by $|u_n|$ and then by its symmetric decreasing rearrangement preserves its $L^2$ and $L^p$ norms and does not increase the gradient norm. A harmless dilation restores the normalization, so we may take the sequence nonnegative, radial, and radially decreasing.

The sequence has a weakly convergent subsequence in $H^1$. Radial compactness and the fixed scale give strong convergence in $L^p$; in particular the limit is nonzero because $\Vert u_n{\Vert }_p^p\to I^{-1}$. Weak lower semicontinuity of the $L^2$ and gradient norms then shows that the limit attains the infimum. This is the existence of a Weinstein-functional minimizer.

For $u\in W^{1,p}({\mathbb{R}}^d)$, the symmetric decreasing rearrangement satisfies