IPCSALT–UPF Research Program: Core Definitions and Structural Framework

# Version Update (26.01.07) This version integrates Papers 34–38, establishing MMS as the diagnostic reference plane, consolidating RBE as a recoverability-based evaluation framework, formalizing observable ΦDark phenotypes, and positioning the Hourglass model as a universal transition geometry. Appendices A, B, and Λ were updated for structural consistency. # Version Update (26.01.02) Appendices A, B, and Λ were revised to align the core framework with Papers 29–33.ΔE / E_R gained directional and irreversibility-aware interpretation; ΦDark was consolidated as a canonical post-collapse phase regime; and the Unified Phase Framework Prompt was updated to ensure safe operation under post-collapse conditions. # Version Update (25.12.28) This version introduces Appendix Λ (Unified Phase Framework Prompt, v3.0), which defines the canonical interaction and reasoning protocol for expert use within the IPCSALT–UPF research program. The appendix specifies operational constraints, epistemic labeling rules, observer roles, and safety boundaries to ensure consistent phase-based analysis across domains. In addition, Appendix A has been updated to reflect recent extensions of the framework, incorporating:- Paper 27: Clinical phase geometry of mental pathology, formalizing diagnosis as navigability within a CRGZ-defined clinical phase space.- Paper 28: Relational boundary dynamics in human–AI interaction, reframing the uncanny valley as a phase instability driven by coupling–boundary misalignment. No core definitions were altered.This update clarifies usage, strengthens structural consistency, and documents validated extensions of the framework. This document serves as a program-level reference manual for the IPCSALT–UPF research program. Rather than presenting new empirical results or standalone theoretical claims, it consolidates stable definitions, variables, structural assumptions, and interpretive operators that recur across multiple papers within the program. Its primary purpose is to centralize foundational conventions—such as the IPCSALT meta-coordinate system, Phase-Lock Value (PLV), CRGZ heuristics, load–recovery stability ratios, and observer-dependent projection operators—so that individual papers can remain concise and avoid repeated exposition. The document is intended to function as a foundational anchor reference, analogous to a glossary, coordinate specification, or methodological charter. It is designed to be cited when IPCSALT–UPF concepts are assumed, while reserving individual citations for papers whose specific methods or results are directly used. This work explicitly does not introduce new experimental findings, predictive models, or ontological claims. Speculative extensions are clearly separated and documented elsewhere when mature. The focus is on structural clarity, cross-domain coherence, and long-term conceptual stability within a cumulative research program. This is not a theory paper. It is the structural backbone that makes the rest of the papers readable.