Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2007/iii/paper-33/3/a/solution

If , all the integer-time positions through lie in , so every increment over an intervening unit interval has absolute value at most two. The unit-time increments of Brownian motion are independent standard normal random variables. Put
The inclusion of events and independence give
In particular is finite almost surely. For real , its tail is at most . The tail integral formula for moments therefore gives, for every ,
An exponential geometric factor dominates the polynomial factors in this sum. This proves the requested moment finiteness for , and in fact for every positive .

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