Ground state of the mass-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrodinger functional

Abstract

We study the ground state problem of the nonlinear Schrodinger functional with a mass-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear term. We provide the optimal condition for the existence of ground states and show that in the critical focusing regime there is a universal blow-up profile given by the unique optimizer of a Gagliardo-Nirenberg interpolation inequality.

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