A few references for Spectral Methods in Dynamics

• a proof of the Perron-Frobenius theorem for matrices by Mike Boyle, U. of Maryland
• proof (with background on BV) of exponential decay of correlations for piecewise-expanding maps on the interval: see section 2 in

  Gerhard Keller and Carlangelo Liverani: A spectral gap for a one-dimensional lattice of coupled piecewise expanding interval maps, Lect. Notes Phys. 671 (2005), p. 115-151

• a clean discussion of exponential decay of correlations for Gibbs-Markov maps (includes full-branch piecewise expanding interval maps): see sections 2 (a)-(b) in

  Ian Melbourne and Matthew Nicol: Almost sure invariance principle for nonuniformly hyperbolic systems, Commun. Math. Phys. 260 (2005) 131-146.

• Young towers, as introduced by Lai-Sang Young (see the papers on her publications page)

  Lai-Sang Young: Statistical properties of dynamical systems with some hyperbolicity. Ann. of Math. (2) 147 (1998), no. 3, 585-650
  [introduces Young towers, proves exponential decay of correlations via spectral methods; includes the quadratic family \(f_a(x):=a x (1-x)\) on [0,1], \(0 < a \le 4\), for which there is a positive measure set of parameters \(a\) with exponential decay of correlations; the spectral method implies that such maps have an acip (absolutely continuous invariant probability), first proved by Michael Jakobson in 1980]
  
  Lai-Sang Young: Recurrence times and rates of mixing. Israel J. Math. 110 (1999), 153-188
  [proves polynomial decay of correlations, using coupling; includes the Pomeau-Mannville intermitent maps, extending results of Carlangelo Liverani, Benoît Saussol and Sandro Vaienti, and Huyi Hu]

• improved Ionescu-Tulcea & Marinescu Theorem: see Section II.1 for an introduction and Chapter XIV (Thm. XIV.3) in

  Hubert Hennion and Loic Hervé: Limit Theorems for Markov Chains and Stochastic Properties of Dynamical Systems by Quasi-Compactness (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1766, 2001)

• a comprehensive survey, as of 2000, of the topic (beware of typos)

  Viviane Baladi: Positive Transfer Operators and Decay of Correlation (Advanced Series in Nonlinear Dynamics)

• similar method/results for subshits of finite type: see the first few chapters in

  William Parry and Mark Pollicott: Zeta Functions and the Periodic Orbit Structure of Hyperbolic Dynamics

  The one-sided shifts correspond to expanding systems, two-sided shifts are the hyperbolic case.