The algebra of extended peaks

Abstract

Building up on our previous works regarding $q$-deformed $P$-partitions, we introduce a new family of subalgebras for the ring of quasisymmetric functions. Each of these subalgebras admits as a basis a $q$-analogue to Gessel's fundamental quasisymmetric functions where $q$ is equal to a complex root of unity. Interestingly, the basis elements are indexed by sets corresponding to an intermediary statistic between peak and descent sets of permutations that we call extended peak.