The document discusses AVL trees, which are self-balancing binary search trees. It defines AVL trees as binary search trees where the heights of the left and right subtrees of every node differ by at most one. Rotations are used to rebalance the tree after insertions or deletions to maintain this height balance property. There are four types of rotations - left, right, left-right, and right-left - to handle different cases of imbalance. The document provides examples of inserting nodes into AVL trees and the resulting rotations required to maintain balance.