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We provide a detailed analysis of the minimizers of the functional $u \mapsto \int_{\Bbb R^n} |\nabla u|^2 + D \int_{\Bbb R^n} |u|^{\gamma}$ 
, $\gamma \in (0, 2)$ 
, subject to the constraint $\|u\|_{L^2} = 1$ 
. This problem, e.g., describes the long-time behavior of the parabolic Anderson in probability theory or ground state solutions of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation. While existence can be proved with standard methods, we show that the usual uniqueness results obtained with PDE-methods can be considerably simplified by additional variational arguments. In addition, we investigate qualitative properties of the minimizers and also study their behavior near the critical exponent 2.
