Minimal model may refer to:
Mathematics Minimal model (birational geometry), classification of algebraic varieties with the goal to construct a birational model of any complex projective variety which is as simple as possible. Minimal model (set theory), the minimal standard model of ZFC, part of the constructible universe. Minimal model (mathematical logic), a model for a formal theory such that no substructure of is a model for .
Physics Minimal model (physics), two-dimensional conformal field theory with finitely many primary fields.
Medicine and physiology Minimal model (endocrinology), a mathematical model of insulin-glucose homeostasis proposed in 1979 by Richard Bergman and :it:Claudio Cobelli
See also Sullivan minimal model, algebraic topology model of a differential graded algebra used in rational homotopy theory. Néron minimal model, algebraic geometry model for abelian varieties over the quotient field of a Dedekind domain R with perfect residue fields. Minimalism (disambiguation)