Let have standard normal distribution, let be an integer and let . A finite expected value of requires absolute integrability, which reduces to finiteness ofFor it is finite exactly when . For every it is finite exactly when : the higher power dominates the negative quadratic when , and for the integrand is bounded by . In the finite cases the signed expected value is zero by symmetry. Otherwise each signed part has infinite integral; a formal symmetric cancellation is only a Cauchy principal value.
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