2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/164438We study vortex nucleation for minimizers of a Ginzburg-Landau energy with discontinuous constraint. For applied magnetic fields comparable with the first critical field of vortex nucleation, we determine the limiting vorticities.20 pagesAnalysis of PDEsMathematical Physics35J60 (Primary) 35J20, 35J25, 35B40 (Secondary)text