Isserlis' theorem: analytic reduction #
Mathlib already identifies mixed moments with iterated Fréchet derivatives of a characteristic function. For a centered Gaussian measure its characteristic function is the exponential of the negative covariance quadratic form. This file packages those two facts in the exact form needed for the finite-dimensional Isserlis induction.
The remaining algebraic step is to differentiate that quadratic exponential
and identify the result with wickPairingSum; keeping it separate makes the
probabilistic transport and the finite pairing induction independently
auditable.
A Gaussian measure has moments of every finite order, in the precise form expected by the characteristic-function differentiation theorem.
Mixed inner-product moments are the iterated Fréchet derivatives of the Gaussian characteristic function at the origin.
Characteristic function of a centered Gaussian measure, written only in terms of its covariance bilinear form.
Exact analytic reduction of Isserlis: the mixed moment is obtained by differentiating the exponential covariance quadratic form. No moment or measurability hypothesis remains beyond Gaussianity.