We study the decay rate of a solution of a homogeneous elliptic equation in the exterior of the ball |X| ≤ r.First, note two well-known results. Let u(z) be an analytic or harmonic function outside the disk |z| ≤ r. If u(z) decays at infinity faster than any power of |z|, then u(z) ≡ 0.
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