Minimal model

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 $$\mathcal{M}$$ for a formal theory $$T$$ such that no model $$\mathcal{M}'$$ for $$T$$ exists such that $$\mathcal{M}\supset\mathcal{M}'$$.

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 Claudio Cobelli