2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/63929The monopole map defines an element in an equivariant stable cohomotopy group refining the Seiberg-Witten invariant. This first of two articles presents the details of the definition of the stable cohomotopy invariant and discusses its relation to the integer valued Seiberg-Witten invariant.18 pagesDifferential GeometryAlgebraic Topology57R57, 55P42text