The number of occurrences of a type-B 231 pattern in a signed permutation.
For a signed permutation $\pi\in\mathfrak H_n$, a triple $-n \leq i < j < k\leq n$ is an occurrence of the type-B $231$ pattern, if $1 \leq j < k$, $\pi(i) < \pi(j)$ and $\pi(i)$ is one larger than $\pi(k)$, i.e., $\pi(i) = \pi(k) + 1$ if $\pi(k) \neq -1$ and $\pi(i) = 1$ otherwise.

The signed permutation with all signs positive.

Return the permutation obtained by concatenating the cycles of a permutation, each written with minimal element first, sorted by minimal element.

Sends a permutation to its image under the Foata bijection.
The Foata bijection $\phi$ is a bijection on the set of words with no two equal letters. It can be defined by induction on the size of the word:
Given a word $w_1 w_2 ... w_n$, compute the image inductively by starting with $\phi(w_1) = w_1$.
At the $i$-th step, if $\phi(w_1 w_2 ... w_i) = v_1 v_2 ... v_i$, define $\phi(w_1 w_2 ... w_i w_{i+1})$ by placing $w_{i+1}$ on the end of the word $v_1 v_2 ... v_i$ and breaking the word up into blocks as follows.

• If $w_{i+1} \geq v_i$, place a vertical line to the right of each $v_k$ for which $w_{i+1} \geq v_k$.
• If $w_{i+1} < v_i$, place a vertical line to the right of each $v_k$ for which $w_{i+1} < v_k$.

In either case, place a vertical line at the start of the word as well. Now, within each block between vertical lines, cyclically shift the entries one place to the right.
To compute $\phi([1,4,2,5,3])$, the sequence of words is

• $1$
• $|1|4 \to 14$
• $|14|2 \to 412$
• $|4|1|2|5 \to 4125$
• $|4|125|3 \to 45123.$

In total, this gives $\phi([1,4,2,5,3]) = [4,5,1,2,3]$.
This bijection sends the major index (St000004The major index of a permutation.) to the number of inversions (St000018The number of inversions of a permutation.).