Levy Processes, Martingales and Uniform Integrability

We give equivalent conditions for the existence of generalized moments of a Levy process $(X_t)_{tgeq 0}$. We show, in particular, that the existence of a generalized $g$-moment is equivalent to uniform integrability of $(g(X_t))_{tin [0,1]}$. As an application, it turns out that certain functions of a Levy process which are integrable and local martingales are already true martingales.