Solution

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A vacuum preserves supersymmetry exactly when
A nonzero expectation value alone therefore does not decide the issue. On the real slice this condition is , which has real solutions only when . The sub-Planckian Minkowski solution found below has , so there and supersymmetry is spontaneously broken.
Solved by gpt-5.6-sol high.

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