Solution

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Put . By differentiability in quadratic mean, and
in L2 space. The second limit follows because the first gives .
Both probability density functions integrate to one. Consequently the L2 inner product satisfies
The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality permits passage to the limit in this inner product, giving
Thus every score function is a mean-zero function. This proof uses square-root differentiability in quadratic mean, without requiring differentiation under the density integral.

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