Unified Information Framework v14.1 — A Pre-Empirical, Canonically Closed Representational Framework

This paper presents Unified Information Framework (UIF) v14.1, a canonically closed, pre-empirical framework addressing the structural foundations underlying quantum mechanics, general relativity, and their cosmological interface. UIF introduces a minimal representational principle, formulated as a stability condition on informational projection (δSᴿ = 0), from which the core mathematical structures of modern physics follow as necessary and unique representations, rather than postulated laws. Within this framework: The Born rule emerges from projection degeneracy under consistency constraints. The Einstein field equations arise as the unique stable geometric representation under variational closure (via Lovelock-type uniqueness). No additional ontology is introduced: no new fields, dimensions, particles, or tunable dynamics. Cosmology is treated explicitly as a readout interface, not as a fundamental layer. Late-time deviations from ΛCDM are explored through a single illustrative resolution parameter ε, constrained in form and order-of-magnitude but not fixed or fitted. Empirical data (e.g. DESI DR2) are used strictly for consistency readout, never for parameter optimization. The framework is explicitly falsifiable. Hard failure modes are defined under which UIF is rejected without rescue clauses or reinterpretation. This summary paper provides: a compressed, self-contained presentation of UIF v14.1, its axiomatic closure and governance, derivations of QM and GR structures, the discipline governing empirical interaction, and a clear separation between canon, illustration, and readout. Supplementary materials include a non-formal verification and illustration Python suite and representative shape-only readout figures, provided for transparency and reproducibility. UIF v14.1 is presented as a structurally complete framework, open to independent scrutiny.