The product of the heights of the descending steps of a Dyck path. A Dyck path with 2n letters defines a partition inside an [n] x [n] board. This statistic counts the number of placements of n non-attacking rooks on the board. By the Gessel-Viennot theory of orthogonal polynomials this corresponds to the 0-moment of the Hermite polynomials. Summing the values of the statistic over all Dyck paths of fixed size n the number of perfect matchings (2n+1)!! is obtained: up steps are openers, down steps closers and the rooks determine a pairing of openers and closers.

The number of regions of the inversion arrangement of a permutation. The inversion arrangement $\mathcal{A}_w$ consists of the hyperplanes $x_i-x_j=0$ such that $(i,j)$ is an inversion of $w$. Postnikov [4] conjectured that the number of regions in $\mathcal{A}_w$ equals the number of permutations in the interval $[id,w]$ in the strong Bruhat order if and only if $w$ avoids $4231$, $35142$, $42513$, $351624$. This conjecture was proved by Hultman-Linusson-Shareshian-Sjöstrand [1]. Oh-Postnikov-Yoo [3] showed that the number of regions of $\mathcal{A}_w$ is $|\chi_{G_w}(-1)|$ where $\chi_{G_w}$ is the chromatic polynomial of the inversion graph $G_w$. This is the graph with vertices ${1,2,\ldots,n}$ and edges $(i,j)$ for $i\lneq j$ $w_i\gneq w_j$. For a permutation $w=w_1\cdots w_n$, Lewis-Morales [2] and Hultman (see appendix in [2]) showed that this number equals the number of placements of $n$ non-attacking rooks on the south-west Rothe diagram of $w$.

The number of acyclic orientations of a graph.

The box weight or horizontal decoration of a Dyck path. Let a Dyck path $D = (d_1,d_2,\dots,d_n)$ with steps $d_i \in \{N=(0,1),E=(1,0)\}$ be given. For the $i$th step $d_i \in D$ we define the weight $$ \beta(d_i) = 1, \quad \text{ if } d_i=N, $$ and $$ \beta(d_i) = \sum_{k = 1}^{i} [\![ d_k = N]\!], \quad \text{ if } d_i=E, $$ where we use the Iverson bracket $[\![ A ]\!]$ that is equal to $1$ if $A$ is true, and $0$ otherwise. The '''box weight''' or '''horizontal deocration''' of $D$ is defined as $$ \prod_{i=1}^{n} \beta(d_i). $$ The name describes the fact that between each $E$ step and the line $y=-1$ exactly one unit box is marked.

The product of the sizes of the principal order filters in a poset.

The number of elements less than or equal to the given element in Bruhat order.

The number of permutations greater than or equal to the given permutation in (strong) Bruhat order.