Solution

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Let for . Since on the negative half-line, almost surely. We have almost everywhere. On a finite interval, integration by parts gives
The lower endpoint contributes zero. The stated hypothesis gives as . Taking the increasing limits of the two nonnegative integrals proves the tail-integral identity
The equality allows the value ; the boundary hypothesis alone does not force a finite expectation. In fact the formula for nonnegative also follows directly from Tonelli theorem, without that additional boundary hypothesis, by integrating against the probability density function.

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