Mixed-dispersion Schr\"odinger equations and Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequalities: equivalence between ground states and optimizers

Abstract

We study a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with mixed dispersion in the mass competition regime, namely mass-supercritical for the Laplacian and mass-subcritical for the Bilaplacian. In this setting, the existence of a critical value of the mass $c_\varepsilon$, which divides existence and nonexistence of energy ground state solutions, was established in [Bonheure, Cast\'eras, dos Santos, Nascimento, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 50 (2018)]. In this work, we strengthen these results by investigating the relationship between the energy ground states with critical mass, and the optimizers of mixed Gagliardo-Nirenberg-type inequalities. Moreover, we discuss the equivalence between energy and action ground states solutions.