Rates in the weak invariance principle for slowly mixing sequential dynamical systems

We obtain rates of convergence in the weak invariance principle for certain classes of slowly mixing sequential dynamical systems. In particular, for systems satisfying a Functional Correlation Bound with rate n-γ \ (γ>1), we establish an explicit bound in the Wasserstein-r metric for 1≤ r<γ+1 whenever the variance grows at a sufficiently fast polynomial rate. The proof is based on Bernstein's ``big block--small block" method. Examples covered by our result include sequential heterochaos baker maps and sequential LSV maps. In particular, for random LSV maps over an ergodic base, we obtain rates in the quenched weak invariance principle.