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GH-51143: [Format] Add Parquet FILE canonical extension type - #51248

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Rationale for this change

Closes #51143

As storage formats standardize file-level references, Arrow needs a canonical in-memory representation to preserve these semantics across IPC streams, the C Data Interface, Arrow Flight, and language bindings. Without a canonical extension type, file fields lose their semantic metadata during serialization.

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What changes are included in this PR?

Proposal and documentation for the arrow.parquet.file canonical extension type.

Are these changes tested?

N/A

Are there any user-facing changes?

Yes, this is an extension to the arrow format.

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⚠️ GitHub issue #51143 has been automatically assigned in GitHub to PR creator.

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[Format] Define Canonical Extension Type for FILE type

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