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 number of ways to select a row of a Ferrers shape and two cells in this row. Equivalently, if $\lambda = (\lambda_0\geq\lambda_1 \geq \dots\geq\lambda_m)$ is an integer partition, then the statistic is $$\frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=0}^m \lambda_i(\lambda_i -1).$$

The number of points below the Dyck path such that the diagonal to the north-east hits the path between two down steps, and the diagonal to the north-west hits the path between two up steps.

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.