The number of occurrences of the arrow pattern 1-2 with an arrow from 1 to 2 in a permutation.
Let $\nu$ be a (partial) permutation of $[k]$ with $m$ letters together with dashes between some of its letters. An occurrence of $\nu$ in a permutation $\tau$ is a subsequence $\tau_{a_1},\dots,\tau_{a_m}$
such that $a_i + 1 = a_{i+1}$ whenever there is a dash between the $i$-th and the $(i+1)$-st letter of $\nu$, which is order isomorphic to $\nu$.
Thus, $\nu$ is a vincular pattern, except that it is not required to be a permutation.
An arrow pattern of size $k$ consists of such a generalized vincular pattern $\nu$ and arrows $b_1\to c_1, b_2\to c_2,\dots$, such that precisely the numbers $1,\dots,k$ appear in the vincular pattern and the arrows.
Let $\Phi$ be the map Mp00087inverse first fundamental transformation. Let $\tau$ be a permutation and $\sigma = \Phi(\tau)$. Then a subsequence $w = (x_{a_1},\dots,x_{a_m})$ of $\tau$ is an occurrence of the arrow pattern if $w$ is an occurrence of $\nu$, for each arrow $b\to c$ we have $\sigma(x_b) = x_c$ and $x_1 < x_2 < \dots < x_k$.

Krattenthaler's bijection to 321-avoiding permutations.
Draw the path of semilength $n$ in an $n\times n$ square matrix, starting at the upper left corner, with right and down steps, and staying below the diagonal. Then the permutation matrix is obtained by placing ones into the cells corresponding to the peaks of the path and placing ones into the remaining columns from left to right, such that the row indices of the cells increase.

The permutation obtained by inverting the corresponding Laguerre heap, according to Viennot.
Let $\pi$ be a permutation. Following Viennot [1], we associate to $\pi$ a heap of pieces, by considering each decreasing run $(\pi_i, \pi_{i+1}, \dots, \pi_j)$ of $\pi$ as one piece, beginning with the left most run. Two pieces commute if and only if the minimal element of one piece is larger than the maximal element of the other piece.
This map yields the permutation corresponding to the heap obtained by reversing the reading direction of the heap.
Equivalently, this is the permutation obtained by flipping the noncrossing arc diagram of Reading [2] vertically.
By definition, this map preserves the set of decreasing runs.