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Let $\eta >0$ and let $P_{\eta }\in L^4({\mathbb{R}}^2)$ solve the trapped focusing cubic ground-state equation. In the Focusing Schrödinger lens ansatz, the initial conditions $\lambda (-1)=\sqrt{1+\eta }$ and $b(-1)=1$ giveIndeed $b=-\lambda {\lambda }_t$ and ${\lambda }^2{b}_t+b^2=-\eta$. The positive $\eta$ keeps the scale nonzero for every real time.

A change of variables $y=x/\lambda (t)$ proves the critical spacetime bound exactly:Thus the solution expands at large times and has finite $L^4$ spacetime norm, rather than merely pointwise decay. This is the norm used by scattering from a finite Strichartz norm.^[ref]

If $P_{\eta }$ solves the trapped focusing cubic ground-state equation, the ansatzsolves the two-dimensional mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation when

Replacing a minimizer by its absolute value does not increase its gradient norm, so choose a nonnegative minimizer $P$. The Euler-Lagrange equation isfor a Lagrange multiplier $\mu$. Multiplication by $P$ and integration show thatso $\mu >0$. Set $P_{\eta }=\sqrt{\mu }P$. Then $P_{\eta }$ is nonzero, belongs to $H^1({\mathbb{R}}^2)$, and satisfies the trapped focusing cubic ground-state equationStandard elliptic regularity and the strong minimum principle for elliptic operators make the nonnegative solution positive.