Suppose and its partial derivative are jointly continuous on a compact rectangle . Then is continuously differentiable in the interior of , and the displayed formula holds, with one-sided derivatives at parameter endpoints where the corresponding partial derivative is given.
To prove it, the extreme value theorem bounds by . For each fixed , the mean value theorem bounds the difference quotient by . It converges pointwise to , and the constant is integrable over . Dominated convergence gives the derivative formula. Apply continuity of parameter integrals on compact rectangles to to obtain continuity of . The proof works locally on unbounded parameter intervals as well.
Fix . On a compact parameter interval containing all nonnegative sufficiently close to , the corresponding rectangle with is compact. The continuous function is therefore bounded there by some , by the extreme value theorem.
For any sequence tending to , all sufficiently late lie in this rectangle's parameter range. For each , continuity givesThe constant function is integrable on . The dominated convergence theorem therefore givesThe sequential criterion for continuity on a real interval proves is continuous on . At zero this is right-continuity. This is continuity of parameter integrals on compact rectangles; the bound is local in the parameter, so need not be bounded on the entire unbounded strip.