databases. In PMC, a user wishes to privately retrieve an arbitrary multivariate monomial
from a candidate set of monomials in $ f $ messages over a finite field $\mathbb F_q $,
where $ q= p^ k $ is a power of a prime $ p $ and $ k\ge 1$, replicated over $ n $ databases.
We derive the PMC capacity under a technical condition on $ p $ and for asymptotically
large $ q $. The condition on $ p $ is satisfied, eg, for large enough $ p $. Also, we present a …