%0 Journal Article %T Embedded contact homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer cohomology I %A Clifford Henry Taubes %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X This is the first of five papers that construct an isomorphism between the embedded contact homology and Seiberg-Witten Floer cohomology of a compact 3-manifold with a given contact 1-form. This paper describes what is involved in the construction. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3985v2