We present a reconstruction-aware diagnostic reinterpretation of a legacy ALICE-style elliptic-flow analysis within the Viscous Emergent Spacetime (VES) framework. The study uses a frozen eight-bin centrality input table reconstructed from a previous IGES/VES exploratory draft, with a raw elliptic-flow curve peaking near v2 ≃ 0.049 and a scaled sensitivity curve normalized to v 2 max = 0.10. The analysis is not an official ALICE precision measurement and is not a validation claim. Instead, it tests whether a VES-style centrality-dependent medium-response susceptibility can improve the shape description of the reconstructed v2(c) input relative to a constant-response baseline. A two-parameter baseline model, v2(c) = κϵ2(c)/1 + α(η/s), gives χ 2 = 8.6428 for the raw input. A purely suppressive VES susceptibility mapping fails in this dataset, but a bounded response map, κeff(c) = κ01+β tanh χVES(c), with β = 0.75, improves the raw diagnostic fit to χ 2 = 1.4718. The same improvement is obtained for the scaled sensitivity input. Conservative AIC/BIC accounting still favors the bounded VES diagnostic over the constant-response baseline. The result should be interpreted only as a methodological consistency result on a reconstructed legacy input table. A physics-level claim requires replacement of this input with official corrected ALICE flow tables or a fully reproducible event-level ALICE/O2 extraction.
Mikheil Rusishvili (Sun,) studied this question.