Lp Sobolev regularity of averaging operators over hypersurfaces and the Newton polyhedron

$L^p$ to $L_{\beta }^p$ boundedness results are proven for translation invariant averaging operators over hypersurfaces in Euclidean space. The operators can either be Radon transforms or averaging operators with multiparameter fractional integral kernel. In many cases, the amount $\beta >0$ of smoothing proven is optimal up to endpoints, and in such situations this amount of smoothing can be computed explicitly through the use of appropriate Newton polyhedra.