This version updates the framing and motivation of Transport Amplification from Curvature-Driven Confinement: A Quantitative Bridge Between Local Reconstruction and Lithium Depletion to incorporate recent developments in early-universe astrophysics. The paper remains part of a structured program in which a constraint-based lithium-depletion analysis identifies the required transport-amplification threshold, and a curvature-driven confinement framework provides a candidate mechanism for generating enhanced photon-mediated interaction environments. The present work evaluates the compatibility of these two results through a reduced-scaling transport analysis. Recent high-redshift observations, including James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detections of rapid chemical processing and unusually strong nitrogen enrichment at cosmic dawn, motivate renewed examination of extreme high-density environments. These findings broaden the relevance of studying interaction-amplification mechanisms capable of sustaining large repeated-interaction opportunity. The analysis tests whether curvature-driven confinement can, in principle, generate effective recirculation factors of order Neff∼1010N₄₅₅ 10^10Neff∼1010, as required by constraint-level treatments of post-BBN lithium depletion. The mathematical framework, parameter definitions, and quantitative results remain unchanged in structure. This version introduces a targeted hardening pass of the reduced-scaling analysis. Additions include an explicit assumptions framework, a discussion of confinement stability, clarification of the efficiency factor ϵϵ as a transport-projection parameter, and inclusion of a representative viable parameter set illustrating threshold compatibility. These refinements improve interpretive precision and referee robustness without altering the core conclusions. The revisions further clarify the role of the present work as a mechanism-level viability analysis. The results should be interpreted as establishing reduced-scaling non-exclusion and conditional compatibility, rather than empirical realization. The framework identifies parameter regimes in which extreme transport amplification is physically admissible in principle, while leaving dynamical realization and observational distinctiveness to future study.
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