Holographic Area Scaling of the QCD-Induced Cosmological Closure

EN: The QCD-induced closure is recast as a holographic area law with an entropic observable that cross-checks the dark-energy benchmark. This manuscript is part of a series of 17 papers (A–S). For a compact self-contained guide to the full program, including epistemic levels, falsification roadmap, and all DOIs, see the program summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19218767 Abstract We define a UV-finite entropic observable for the scalar QCD sector based on mutual information, xi_MI[rho_Theta](L), and connect it to the microphysical input kappa extracted from . Under the operational hypothesis that identifies the subtracted Casimir/response-like piece as the effective source in Friedmann, late-time closure implies the cubic UV/IR identity l_*^3 = alpha(kappa) l_Pl^2 L_dS with l_* = mu_*^-1, together with a cell count N_cells = (L_dS/l_*)^3 = L_dS^2 / [alpha(kappa) l_Pl^2], i.e. area scaling with a prefactor fixed by kappa. Treating holography as a consistency condition rather than as an additional equation, if S_eff = xi N_cells represents the sector's coarse-grained entropy/information, the covariant Bousso bound requires xi