Ground states for the higher-order dispersion managed NLS equation in the absence of average dispersion

The problem of existence of ground states in higher-order dispersion managed NLS equation is considered. The ground states are stationary solutions to dispersive equations with nonlocal nonlinearity which arise as averaging approximations in the context of strong dispersion management in optical communications. The main result of this note states that the averaged equation possesses ground state solutions in the practically and conceptually important case of the vanishing residual dispersions.