For the cube and ,
This follows from the pairwise-difference identity
and a coordinate-by-coordinate path from to . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality bounds the squared sum of its increments by times the sum of their squares, while the one-dimensional fundamental theorem of calculus bounds each integrated increment by . Division by gives the stated constant.
Differentiation under the integral sign Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If and its partial derivative are continuous for in a compact interval and in an open set, then
Apply the fundamental theorem of calculus to the difference quotient in the th coordinate and use uniform continuity on a compact neighbourhood.
For a continuously differentiable vector-valued function whose domain contains the segment from to , apply the fundamental theorem of calculus componentwise to . The resulting integral matrix is valid even when there is no common intermediate point giving a vector mean-value formula. For a score function, it integrates the Hessian matrix along the segment to a candidate estimate.
If an L2 space-valued map has a continuous mean-square derivative , then its increments equal the Bochner integral of . To see this, for each partition interval , continuous linear observations and the scalar mean-value bound give . Sum these errors. Uniform continuity of makes the total error tend to zero as the mesh tends to zero, while the Riemann sums converge to the Bochner integral. This proves the fundamental theorem of calculus in L2 space. If a Gaussian process derivative also has a continuous modification, its anchored path integral therefore produces a differentiable modification of a stochastic process of the original Gaussian process.