Log-concavity and compressed ideals in certain Macaulay posets (Q1613556)

A ranked poset is a poset \((P,\leq)\) with a function from \(P\) into the set of non-negative integers called a rank function. A Macaulay poset is a ranked poset for which there exists a linear order \(\preceq \) on \(P\) satisfying certain conditions on the levels of \((P,\leq)\). Let \(B_n\) be the poset of subsets of \(\{1,\dots,n\}\) ordered by inclusion, and \(M_n\) be the poset of monomials in \(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n\) ordered by divisibility. Then there are linear orders on \(B_n\) and \(M_n\) so that both are Macauley posets. The author shows that the profiles of ideals in \(B_n\) and \(M_n\) generated by the first elements (relatively to the linear order) of a given rank are log-concave.