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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 ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}}$ for a formal theory ${\displaystyle T}$ such that no substructure ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}'}$ of ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {M}}}$ is a model for ${\displaystyle T}$.

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

See also

• Sullivan minimal model, algebraic topology model of a differential graded algebra used in rational homotopy theory.
• Neron minimal model, algebraic geometry model for abelian varieties over the quotient field of a Dedekind domain R with perfect residue fields.
• Minimalism (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages
• Mathematics disambiguation pages