The Fundamental Plane of Galaxy Group Mergers
  We present a series of hundreds of collisionless simulations of galaxy group
mergers. These simulations are designed to test whether the properties of
elliptical galaxies - including the key fundamental plane scaling relation,
morphology and kinematics - can be simultaneously reproduced by dry multiple
mergers in galaxy groups. Preliminary results indicate that galaxy group
mergers can produce elliptical remnants lying on a tilted fundamental plane,
even without a central dissipational component from a starburst. This suggests
that multiple mergers in groups are an alternate avenue for the formation of
elliptical galaxies which could well dominate for luminous ellipticals.
