SHARP Lp→Lr ESTIMATES OF RESTRICTED AVERAGING OPERATORS OVER CURVES ON PLANES IN FINITE FIELDS

Let $\mathbb{F}^d_q$ be a d-dimensional vector space over a finite field $\mathbb{F}^d_q$ with q elements. We endow the space $\mathbb{F}^d_q$ with a normalized counting measure dx. Let ${\sigma}$ be a normalized surface measure on an algebraic variety V contained in the space ($\mathbb{F}^d_q$, dx). We define the restricted averaging operator AV by $A_Vf(X)=f*{\sigma}(x)$ for $x{\in}V$, where $f:(\mathbb{F}^d_q,dx){\rightarrow}\mathbb{C}$: In this paper, we initially investigate $L^p{\rightarrow}L^r$ estimates of the restricted averaging operator AV. As a main result, we obtain the optimal results on this problem in the case when the varieties V are any nondegenerate algebraic curves in two dimensional vector spaces over finite fields. The Fourier restriction estimates for curves on $\mathbb{F}^2_q$ play a crucial role in proving our results.