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What is the expectation of the Dirac delta function of a random variable

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I have a Dirac delta function as follows:

$\delta_{\epsilon = y}$ where $\epsilon \sim N(0, \sigma^2)$, and $y \in \mathbb{R}$.

I want to take the expectation of this function, but it appears that it would, by definition, be $\infty * P(\epsilon = y)$, which isn't well defined.

Is that accurate, or am I missing something here.


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