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Integrability threshold for exponential powers of a Gaussian (E[ZeαZ2m])

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Let Z have standard normal distribution, let m≥1 be an integer and let α∈R. A finite expected value of ZeαZ2m requires absolute integrability, which reduces to finiteness of
∫0∞​zexp(αz2m−z2/2)dz.
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For m=1 it is finite exactly when α<1/2. For every m≥2 it is finite exactly when α≤0: the higher power dominates the negative quadratic when α>0, and for α≤0 the integrand is bounded by ze−z2/2. 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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