Abstract In the 1970s, Nicolas proved that the partition function p ( n ) is log-concave for $$ n > 25$$ n>25 . In Heim et al. (Ann Comb 27(1):87–108, 2023), a precise conjecture on the log-concavity for the plane partition function $${{\textrm{pp}}}(n)$$ pp(n) for $$n >11$$ n>11 was stated. This was recently proven by Ono, Pujahari, and Rolen. In this paper, we provide a general picture. We associate to double sequences $$\{g_d(n)\}_{d,n}$$ {gd(n)}d,n with $$g_d(1)=1$$ gd(1)=1 and $$\begin{aligned} 0 \le g_{d}\left( n\right) -n^{d}\le g_{1}\left( n\right) \left( n-1\right) ^{d-1}, \end{aligned}$$ 0≤gdn-nd≤g1nn-1d-1, polynomials $$\{P_n^{g_d}(x)\}_{d,n}$$ {Pngd(x)}d,n given by $$\begin{aligned} \sum _{n=0}^{\infty } P_n^{g_d}(x) \, q^n := {{\textrm{exp}}}\left( x \sum _{n=1}^{\infty } g_d(n) \frac{q^n}{n} \right) =\prod _{n=1}^{\infty } \left( 1 - q^n \right) ^{-x f_d(n)}. \end{aligned}$$ ∑n=0∞Pngd(x)qn:=expx∑n=1∞gd(n)qnn=