The number of stack-sorts needed to sort a permutation.
A permutation is (West) $t$-stack sortable if it is sortable using $t$ stacks in series.
Let $W_t(n,k)$ be the number of permutations of size $n$
with $k$ descents which are $t$-stack sortable. Then the polynomials $W_{n,t}(x) = \sum_{k=0}^n W_t(n,k)x^k$
are symmetric and unimodal.
We have $W_{n,1}(x) = A_n(x)$, the Eulerian polynomials. One can show that $W_{n,1}(x)$ and $W_{n,2}(x)$ are real-rooted.
Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $231$ have statistic at most $1$, see [3]. These are counted by $\frac{1}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}$ (OEIS:A000108). Precisely the permutations that avoid the pattern $2341$ and the barred pattern $3\bar 5241$ have statistic at most $2$, see [4]. These are counted by $\frac{2(3n)!}{(n+1)!(2n+1)!}$ (OEIS:A000139).

This map sends a permutation $\pi$ to $\pi^{-1} \star \pi$ where $\star$ denotes the Demazure product on permutations.
This map is a surjection onto the set of involutions, i.e., the set of permutations $\pi$ for which $\pi = \pi^{-1}$.

The fixed-point-free permutation with deficiencies given by the perfect matching, no alignments and no inversions between exceedences.
Put differently, the exceedences form the unique non-nesting perfect matching whose openers coincide with those of the given perfect matching.

Sends a Dyck path of semilength n to the noncrossing perfect matching given by matching an up-step with the corresponding down-step.
This is, for a Dyck path $D$ of semilength $n$, the perfect matching of $\{1,\dots,2n\}$ with $i < j$ being matched if $D_i$ is an up-step and $D_j$ is the down-step connected to $D_i$ by a tunnel.