Hölder regularity and exponential decay of correlations for a class of piecewise partially hyperbolic maps

Abstract: We consider a class of endomorphisms which contains a set of piecewise partially hyperbolic skew-products with a non-uniformly expanding base map. The aimed transformation preserves a foliation which is almost everywhere uniformly contracted with possible discontinuity sets, which are parallel to the contracting direction. We prove that the associated transfer operator, acting on suitable anisotropic normed spaces, has a spectral gap (on which we have quantitative estimation) and the disintegration of the unique invariant physical measure, along the stable leaves, is $\zeta$-H\"older. We use this fact to obtain exponential decay of correlations on the set of $\zeta$-H\"older functions.