The spin of an integer partition. The Ferrers shape of an integer partition $\lambda$ can be decomposed into border strips. The spin is then defined to be the total number of crossings of border strips of $\lambda$ with the vertical lines in the Ferrers shape. The following example is taken from Appendix B in [1]: Let $\lambda = (5,5,4,4,2,1)$. Removing the border strips successively yields the sequence of partitions $$(5,5,4,4,2,1), (4,3,3,1), (2,2), (1), ().$$ The first strip $(5,5,4,4,2,1) \setminus (4,3,3,1)$ crosses $4$ times, the second strip $(4,3,3,1) \setminus (2,2)$ crosses $3$ times, the strip $(2,2) \setminus (1)$ crosses $1$ time, and the remaining strip $(1) \setminus ()$ does not cross. This yields the spin of $(5,5,4,4,2,1)$ to be $4+3+1 = 8$.

The dinv adjustment of an integer partition. The Ferrers shape of an integer partition $\lambda = (\lambda_1,\ldots,\lambda_k)$ can be decomposed into border strips. For $0 \leq j < \lambda_1$ let $n_j$ be the length of the border strip starting at $(\lambda_1-j,0)$. The dinv adjustment is then defined by $$\sum_{j:n_j > 0}(\lambda_1-1-j).$$ The following example is taken from Appendix B in [2]: Let $\lambda=(5,5,4,4,2,1)$. Removing the border strips successively yields the sequence of partitions $$(5,5,4,4,2,1),(4,3,3,1),(2,2),(1),(),$$ and we obtain $(n_0,\ldots,n_4) = (10,7,0,3,1)$. The dinv adjustment is thus $4+3+1+0 = 8$.

The number of invisible inversions of a permutation. A visible inversion of a permutation $\pi$ is a pair $i < j$ such that $\pi(j) \leq \min(i, \pi(i))$. Thus, an invisible inversion satisfies $\pi(i) > \pi(j) > i$.

The Ramsey number of a graph. This is the smallest integer $n$ such that every two-colouring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$ contains a (not necessarily induced) monochromatic copy of the given graph. [1] Thus, the Ramsey number of the complete graph $K_n$ is the ordinary Ramsey number $R(n,n)$. Very few of these numbers are known, in particular, it is only known that $43\leq R(5,5)\leq 48$. [2,3,4,5]

The number of elements which do not have a complement in the lattice. A complement of an element $x$ in a lattice is an element $y$ such that the meet of $x$ and $y$ is the bottom element and their join is the top element.

The binary logarithm of the size of the center of a lattice. An element of a lattice is central if it is neutral and has a complement. The subposet induced by central elements is a Boolean lattice.