In the fixed-node `N=1024` QGEFT universe, the mean shortest-path distance between the four dominant dark halos increases from `d0 ≈ 3. 167` to `dfinal ≈ 3. 333`, yielding a graph-theoretic cosmological scale factor `afinal ≈ 1. 053` with transient peaks `aₘax ≈ 1. 105`. A short `N=256` control remains contraction-dominated with `r (S, a) ≈ -0. 9997`, while the long `N=1024` run flips to a weak but positive correlation `r (S, a) ≈ 0. 1144`, supporting a vacuum-driven entropic metric expansion in a strictly fixed-`N` topology.
Yaniv Cohen (2026) studied this question.