Abstract. Let ϕ : R 2 → R be a homogeneous polynomial function of degree m ≥ 2, let Σ = {(x, ϕ(x)) : |x| ≤ 1} and let σ be the Borel measure on Σ defined by σ(A) = B χ A (x, ϕ(x)) dx where B is the unit open ball in R 2 and dx denotes the Lebesgue measure on R 2 . We show that the composition of the Fourier transform in R 3 followed by restriction to Σ defines a bounded operator fromFor m ≥ 6 the results are sharp except for some border points.1. Introduction. Let ϕ : R n → R be a smooth enough function, let B be the open unit ball in R n and letwhere f denotes the usual Fourier transform of f defined by f (ξ) = f (u)e −i u,ξ du. Let σ be the Borel measure on Σ defined by σ(A) = B χ A (x, ϕ(x)) dx and let E be the type set for the operator R, i.e. the set of pairs (1/p, 1/q)for some c > 0 and all f ∈ S(R n+1 ), where the spaces L p (R n+1 ) and L q (Σ) are taken with respect to the Lebesgue measure in R n+1 and the measure σ respectively. The L p (R n+1 )-L q (Σ) boundedness properties of the restriction operator R have been widely studied. It is well known that for Σ as above, ifIn [10], it is proved, for the case where ϕ is a nondegenerate quadratic form in R n+1 , that (1/p, 1/2) ∈ E if (n + 4)/(2n + 4) ≤ 1/p ≤ 1, and the method given there provides a general tool to obtain, from suitable estimates for σ, L p (R n+1 )-L 2 (Σ) estimates for R. Moreover, a general theorem, due to Stein,2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 42B10, 26D10.