Affine Springer Fibers and Generalized Haiman Ideals (with an Appendix by Eugene Gorsky and Joshua P. Turner)

Abstract We compute the Borel–Moore homology of unramified affine Springer fibers for Grₙ under the assumption that they are equivariantly formal and relate them to certain ideals discussed by Haiman. For n=3, we give an explicit description of these ideals, compute their Hilbert series, generators, and relations, and compare them to generalized (q, t) -Catalan numbers. We also compare the homology to the Khovanov–Rozansky homology of the associated link, and prove a version of a conjecture of Oblomkov, Rasmussen, and Shende in this case.