Restricted averaging operators to cones over finite fields
AbstractWe investigate the sharp{L^{p}\to L^{r}}estimates for the restricted averaging operator{A_{C}}over the coneCof thed-dimensional vector space{\mathbb{F}_{q}^{d}}over the finite field{\mathbb{F}_{q}}withqelements. The restricted averaging operator{A_{C}}for the coneCis defined by the relation{A_{C}f=f\ast\sigma|_{C}}, where σ denotes the normalized surface measure on the coneC, andfis a complex-valued function on the space{\mathbb{F}_{q}^{d}}with the normalized counting measuredx. In the previous work [D. Koh, C.-Y. Shen and I. Shparlinski, Averaging operators over homogeneous varieties over finite fields, J. Geom. Anal. 26 2016, 2, 1415–1441], the sharp boundedness of{A_{C}}was obtained in odd dimensions{d\geq 3}, but only partial results were given in even dimensions{d\geq 4}. In this paper we prove the optimal estimates in even dimensions{d\geq 6}in the case when the cone{C\subset\mathbb{F}_{q}^{d}}contains a{{d/2}}-dimensional subspace.