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Using N-body+hydro simulations we study relations between the local environments of galaxies on 0.5 Mpc scale and properties of the luminous components of galaxies. Our numerical simulations include effects of star formation and supernova feedback in different cosmological scenarios: the standard Cold Dark Matter model, the Broken Scale Invariance model (BSI), and a model with cosmological constant (LCDM). In this paper, we concentrate on the effects of environment on colors and morphologies of galaxies, on the star formation rate and on the relation between the total luminosity of a galaxy and its circular velocity. We demonstrate a statistically significant theoretical relationship between morphology and environment. In particular, there is a strong tendency for high-mass galaxies and for elliptical galaxies to form in denser environments, in agreement with observations. We find that in models with denser environments (CDM scenario) ~ 13 % of the galactic halos can be identified as field ellipticals, according to their colors. In simulations with less clustering (BSI and LCDM), the fraction of ellipticals is considerably lower (~ 2-3 %). The strong sensitivity of morphological type to environment is rather remarkable because our results are applicable to ``field galaxies and small groups. If all galaxies in our simulations are included, we find a statistically significant dependence of the galaxy luminosity - circular velocity relation on dark matter overdensity within spheres of radius 0.5 Mpc, for the CDM simulations. But if we remove ``elliptical galaxies from our analysis to mimic the Tully-Fisher relation for spirals, then no dependence is found in any model.
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