The largest part of an integer partition.

Dyson's crank of a partition. Let $\lambda$ be a partition and let $o(\lambda)$ be the number of parts that are equal to 1 ([[St000475]]), and let $\mu(\lambda)$ be the number of parts that are strictly larger than $o(\lambda)$ ([[St000473]]). Dyson's crank is then defined as $$crank(\lambda) = \begin{cases} \text{ largest part of }\lambda & o(\lambda) = 0\\ \mu(\lambda) - o(\lambda) & o(\lambda) > 0. \end{cases}$$

The spin of an integer partition. The Ferrers shape of an integer partition $\lambda$ can be decomposed into border strips. The spin is then defined to be the total number of crossings of border strips of $\lambda$ with the vertical lines in the Ferrers shape. The following example is taken from Appendix B in [1]: Let $\lambda = (5,5,4,4,2,1)$. Removing the border strips successively yields the sequence of partitions $$(5,5,4,4,2,1), (4,3,3,1), (2,2), (1), ().$$ The first strip $(5,5,4,4,2,1) \setminus (4,3,3,1)$ crosses $4$ times, the second strip $(4,3,3,1) \setminus (2,2)$ crosses $3$ times, the strip $(2,2) \setminus (1)$ crosses $1$ time, and the remaining strip $(1) \setminus ()$ does not cross. This yields the spin of $(5,5,4,4,2,1)$ to be $4+3+1 = 8$.

The dinv adjustment of an integer partition. The Ferrers shape of an integer partition $\lambda = (\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_k)$ can be decomposed into border strips. For $0 \leq j < \lambda_1$ let $n_j$ be the length of the border strip starting at $(\lambda_1-j,0)$. The dinv adjustment is then defined by $$\sum_{j:n_j > 0}(\lambda_1-1-j).$$ The following example is taken from Appendix B in [2]: Let $\lambda=(5,5,4,4,2,1)$. Removing the border strips successively yields the sequence of partitions $$(5,5,4,4,2,1),(4,3,3,1),(2,2),(1),(),$$ and we obtain $(n_0,\ldots,n_4) = (10,7,0,3,1)$. The dinv adjustment is thus $4+3+1+0 = 8$.

The number of ordered refinements of an integer partition. This is, for an integer partition $\mu = (\mu_1,\ldots,\mu_n)$ the number of integer partition $\lambda = (\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_m)$ such that there are indices $1 = a_0 < \ldots < a_n = m$ with $\mu_j = \lambda_{a_{j-1}} + \ldots + \lambda_{a_j-1}$.

The length of the partition.

The sum of the semi-lengths of tunnels before a valley of a Dyck path. For each valley $v$ in a Dyck path $D$ there is a corresponding tunnel, which is the factor $T_v = s_i\dots s_j$ of $D$ where $s_i$ is the step after the first intersection of $D$ with the line $y = ht(v)$ to the left of $s_j$. This statistic is $$ \sum_v (j_v-i_v)/2. $$

The number of odd rises of a Dyck path. This is the number of ones at an odd position, with the initial position equal to 1. The number of Dyck paths of semilength $n$ with $k$ up steps in odd positions and $k$ returns to the main diagonal are counted by the binomial coefficient $\binom{n-1}{k-1}$ [3,4].

The last entry in the first row of a standard tableau.

The maximal height of a column in the parallelogram polyomino associated with a Dyck path.