In this paper we will study artinian quotients A = R/I of the polynomial ring R = k[x1, ..., xr], where k is a field of characteristic zero, the xi’s all have degree 1 and I is a homogeneous ideal of R. These rings are often referred to as standard graded artinian algebras. Before explaining the main results of this work, we establish some of the notation we will use: the h-vector of A is h(A) ...