Solution

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The canonical Kähler potential gives and inverse Kähler metric one. Substituting the superpotential and its Kähler covariant derivative of a superpotential into the supergravity F-term potential yields
For real , the prefactor is simply ; the modulus form also covers a complex phase. To keep both scalar directions explicit, write and . Then
The negative term is essential: unlike the global F-term scalar potential, the supergravity F-term potential need not be nonnegative. This is why cancelling the cosmological constant does not force the auxiliary field to vanish.

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