Krishna M. Absolutely continuous spectrum for sparce Potentials (18K, AmsTeX) ABSTRACT. In this paper we show that bounded perturbation of the discrete laplacian with a potential that is sparcely supported ( a notion made precise in the paper ) produces absolutely continuous spectrum in the interval [-2$\nu$, 2$\nu$] for large dimension $\nu$. We note that the potential need not give rise to a compact operator, let alone have decay at infinity.