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 $w$.

Sends a Dyck path $D$ with valley at positions $\{(i_1,j_1),\ldots,(i_k,j_k)\}$ to the unique non-crossing permutation $\pi$ having descents $\{i_1,\ldots,i_k\}$ and whose inverse has descents $\{j_1,\ldots,j_k\}$.
It sends the area St000012The area of a Dyck path. to the number of inversions St000018The number of inversions of a permutation. and the major index St000027The major index of a Dyck path. to $n(n-1)$ minus the sum of the major index St000004The major index of a permutation. and the inverse major index St000305The inverse major index of a permutation..