We prove time-pointwise quantitative unique continuation estimates for the evolution
operators associated to (fractional powers of) the Baouendi–Grushin operators on the cylinder
. Spectral inequalities
are deduced, relating for functions from spectral subspaces associated to finite energy intervals their
-norm on the whole
cylinder
to the
-norm on so-called
thick subsets of
.
As a byproduct, we also obtain results on exact and approximate null-controllability
for the corresponding evolution systems. This extends and complements
results obtained recently by the authors and by Jaming and Wang.