Finite second moment implies . For near any positive , the derivative of is bounded in absolute value by , provided the neighbourhood stays in . The dominated convergence theorem therefore permits differentiation under the expectation:
For the expansion, put . Taylor expansion gives as . Also, for ,
The inequalities follow by integrating from zero to . Consequently pointwise and its absolute value is bounded by . Another application of the dominated convergence theorem gives the second-moment expansion of a Laplace transform:
No third moment is needed for the remainder estimate.