Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval   In the private information retrieval (PIR) problem a user wishes to retrieve,
as efficiently as possible, one out of $K$ messages from $N$ non-communicating
databases (each holds all $K$ messages) while revealing nothing about the
identity of the desired message index to any individual database. The
information theoretic capacity of PIR is the maximum number of bits of desired
information that can be privately retrieved per bit of downloaded information.
For $K$ messages and $N$ databases, we show that the PIR capacity is
$(1+1/N+1/N^2+\cdots+1/N^{K-1})^{-1}$. A remarkable feature of the capacity
achieving scheme is that if we eliminate any subset of messages (by setting the
message symbols to zero), the resulting scheme also achieves the PIR capacity
for the remaining subset of messages.

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