Maximum difference of elements in cycles. Given a cycle $C$ in a permutation, we can compute the maximum distance between elements in the cycle, that is $\max \{ a_i-a_j | a_i, a_j \in C \}$. The statistic is then the maximum of this value over all cycles in the permutation.

The staircase size of the code of a permutation. The code $c(\pi)$ of a permutation $\pi$ of length $n$ is given by the sequence $(c_1,\ldots,c_{n})$ with $c_i = |\{j > i : \pi(j) < \pi(i)\}|$. This is a bijection between permutations and all sequences $(c_1,\ldots,c_n)$ with $0 \leq c_i \leq n-i$. The staircase size of the code is the maximal $k$ such that there exists a subsequence $(c_{i_k},\ldots,c_{i_1})$ of $c(\pi)$ with $c_{i_j} \geq j$. This statistic is mapped through [[Mp00062]] to the number of descents, showing that together with the number of inversions [[St000018]] it is Euler-Mahonian.

The number of pop-stack-sorts needed to sort a permutation. The pop-stack sorting operator is defined as follows. Process the permutation $\pi$ from left to right. If the stack is empty or its top element is smaller than the current element, empty the stack completely and append its elements to the output in reverse order. Next, push the current element onto the stack. After having processed the last entry, append the stack to the output in reverse order. A permutation is $t$-pop-stack sortable if it is sortable using $t$ pop-stacks in series.

The largest part of an integer partition.

The largest part of an integer composition.

The length of the longest pattern of the form k 1 2...(k-1).

The degree of the graph. This is the maximal vertex degree of a graph.

The treewidth of a graph. A graph has treewidth zero if and only if it has no edges. A connected graph has treewidth at most one if and only if it is a tree. A connected graph has treewidth at most two if and only if it is a series-parallel graph.

The largest eigenvalue of a graph if it is integral. If a graph is $d$-regular, then its largest eigenvalue equals $d$. One can show that the largest eigenvalue always lies between the average degree and the maximal degree. This statistic is undefined if the largest eigenvalue of the graph is not integral.

The pathwidth of a graph.