Spectral Analysis for Perturbed Operators on Carnot Groups

Let $\G$ be a Carnot group of homogeneous dimension $M$ and $\Delta$ its horizontal sublaplacian. For $\alpha\in(0,M)$ we show that operators of the form $H_\alpha:=(-\Delta)^\alpha+V$ have no singular spectrum, under generous assumptions on the multiplication operator $V$. The proof is based on commutator methods and Hardy inequalities.