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This chapter provides an overview of the key background to the work in this thesis. The main themes are General Relativity (GR), its numerical formulation in Numerical Relativity (NR), and Scalar Fields (SF) coupled to gravity. These are considered in Sects. 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 respectively.

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