%0 Journal Article %T On the Mobius function of a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay poset %A Christos A. Athanasiadis %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %X A certain inequality is shown to hold for the values of the Mobius function of the poset obtained by attaching a maximum element to a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay poset. In two important special cases, this inequality provides partial results supporting Stanley's nonnegativity conjecture for the toric h-vector of a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay meet-semilattice and Adin's nonnegativity conjecture for the cubical h-vector of a Cohen-Macaulay cubical complex. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.3148v2