Averaging operators over nondegenerate quadratic surfaces in finite fields

Abstract

We study mapping properties of the averaging operator related to the variety $ V={x\in \mathbb F_q^d: Q(x)=0},$ where $Q(x)$ is a nondegenerate quadratic polynomial over a finite field $\mathbb F_q$ with $q$ elements. This paper is devoted to eliminating the logarithmic bound appearing in the paper of Koh and Shen. As a consequence, we settle down the averaging problems over the quadratic surfaces $V$ in the case when the dimensions $d\geq 4$ are even and $V$ contains a $d/2$-dimensional subspace.