The area of a Dyck path. This is the number of complete squares in the integer lattice which are below the path and above the x-axis. The 'half-squares' directly above the axis do not contribute to this statistic. 1. Dyck paths are bijection with '''area sequences''' $(a_1,\ldots,a_n)$ such that $a_1 = 0, a_{k+1} \leq a_k + 1$. 2. The generating function $\mathbf{D}_n(q) = \sum_{D \in \mathfrak{D}_n} q^{\operatorname{area}(D)}$ satisfy the recurrence $$\mathbf{D}_{n+1}(q) = \sum q^k \mathbf{D}_k(q) \mathbf{D}_{n-k}(q).$$ 3. The area is equidistributed with [[St000005]] and [[St000006]]. Pairs of these statistics play an important role in the theory of $q,t$-Catalan numbers.

The sum of the hook lengths in the first row of an integer partition. For a cell in the Ferrers diagram of a partition, the hook length is given by the number of boxes to its right plus the number of boxes below plus one. This statistic is the sum of the hook lengths of the first row of a partition. Put differently, for a partition of size $n$ with first parth $\lambda_1$, this is $\binom{\lambda_1}{2} + n$.

The number of boxes below precisely one peak. Imagine that each peak of the Dyck path, drawn with north and east steps, casts a shadow onto the triangular region between it and the diagonal. This statistic is the number of cells which are in the shade of precisely one peak.

Gives the vector space dimension of the homomorphism space between J^2 and J^2.