Mean under one-sided exponential tilting

ID: mean-under-one-sided-exponential-tilting

Suppose for all . Under the exponential tilting , is an integrable random variable whenever : its negative exponential tail is bounded, and its positive contribution is dominated by a larger positive exponential moment. Differentiation under the integral sign gives the displayed mean. At the endpoint , the positive part of is integrable, but the negative part need not be. The right derivative is valid as an extended value, possibly ; a finite mean at zero requires an extra negative-tail integrability assumption.

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