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A bounded-domain hypothesis is needed for the requested global construction and uniqueness. The printed question does not include it. For example, the upper half-plane satisfies the stated exterior cone condition, but both $u=0$ and $u(x_1,x_2)=x_2$ are harmonic functions with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. Thus part (iv), in its printed unrestricted solution class, is false. In this question's solutions we add that $\Omega$ is bounded; the exterior cone condition and all other data remain as printed.

The half-plane also rules out the printed global separated barrier. In its angular interval $(0,\pi )$, varying $r$ on a fixed ray forces $\nu =2$ if $r^{\nu -2}(h^{\prime \prime }+{\nu }^{2}h)\ge \delta >0$ for every $r>0$. We would then have $h^{\prime \prime }+4h\ge \delta$ and $h<0$. Put $a=\pi /4$ and $b=3\pi /4$. Twice integration by parts givescontradicting the positive integrand. Thus a source qualification is necessary for part (i) as well as part (iv).

Fix $x_0$ and its exterior cone of half-angle $\alpha$. Choose $0<{\alpha }_0<\min (\alpha ,\pi /2)$ and setOn the complement of the cone, unwrap the angle in polar coordinates as $\vartheta \in (\alpha ,2\pi -\alpha )$, measured from the cone axis. Then $\psi =\vartheta -\pi$ is the angle from the opposite axis and $|\psi |\le \pi -\alpha$ on $\overline{\Omega }\setminus \{x_0\}$. Define the power barrier for an exterior cone byThis has the requested separated form $r^{\nu }h(\vartheta )$. In the printed signed-angle convention, the same function is $-r^{\nu }\cos (\beta (\pi -|\theta |))$ outside the cone. It is smooth across the negative axis: near that axis the angular expression is the even function $\cos (\beta \psi )$.

Since $\beta (\pi -\alpha )<\pi /2$, put $m=\cos (\beta (\pi -\alpha ))>0$. The cosine is at least $m$, so $g\le -m{r}^{\nu }<0$ away from $x_0$, and $g$ is continuous at $x_0$. The Laplacian in polar coordinates givesLet $D={\sup }_{x\in \Omega }|x-x_0|<\infty$. Since $\nu <2$, the barrier for the Dirichlet problem satisfiesBoth the uniform lower bound and the later global comparison use boundedness. In particular, $-g$ is positive at every other boundary point, and is bounded away from zero on boundary sets staying a positive distance from $x_0$.