Returns the fixed point free involution whose transpositions are the pairs in the perfect matching.

The inverse of the Clarke-Steingrimsson-Zeng map, sending excedances to descents.
This is the inverse of the map $\Phi$ in [1, sec.3].

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.).

The connectivity set of a permutation as a binary word.
According to [2], also known as the global ascent set.
The connectivity set is
$$C(\pi)=\{i\in [n-1] | \forall 1 \leq j \leq i < k \leq n : \pi(j) < \pi(k)\}.$$
For $n > 1$ it can also be described as the set of occurrences of the mesh pattern
$$([1,2], \{(0,2),(1,0),(1,1),(2,0),(2,1) \})$$
or equivalently
$$([1,2], \{(0,1),(0,2),(1,1),(1,2),(2,0) \}),$$
see [3].
The permutation is connected, when the connectivity set is empty.