Quantum groups of Borcherds-Cartan type and Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras

Abstract: We study a class of quantum groups $U^-$ associated with quivers with loops and provide a categorification by constructing their associated Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras $R$. We prove that the indecomposable projective module over $R$ corresponds to the canonical basis of $U^-$. In the Jordan quiver case, we show that the cyclotomic Khovanov-Lauda-Rouquier algebras $R^\Lambda$ categorify the irreducible highest weight $U$-module $V(\Lambda)$.