Stable homotopy groups of spheres and higher singularities (Q862143)

In this interesting paper the author constructs an isomorphism of the group of all cobordism classes of fold maps of degree 0 of \(n\)-dimensional closed oriented manifolds to the \(n\)-sphere to the \(n\)-th stable homotopy group of spheres (Theorem 1.2). As an application the author shows that elements of the \(n\)-th stable homotopy group of spheres are detected by higher singularities of certain maps in dimension less than or equal to 7. These results are connected to other papers by the author as [J. Math. Soc. Japan 34, 241--267 (1982; Zbl 0479.58003); ibid. 37, 471--487 (1985; Zbl 0581.58005); Jap. J. Math., New Ser. 24, No. 1, 169--181 (1998; Zbl 0903.55005); J. Math. Soc. Japan 53, No. 2, 357--382 (2001; Zbl 0980.58026); Jap. J. Math., New Ser. 30, No. 1, 29--73 (2004; Zbl 1070.57018)].