The document discusses graphs and their representations. It defines a graph as consisting of nodes and edges that connect pairs of nodes. Adjacency lists are described as the standard way to represent graphs, with each edge appearing in two lists doubling the space. A topological sort orders the vertices in a directed acyclic graph such that if there is an edge from vertex v to w, then v appears before w in the ordering. It is not possible to perform a topological sort if the graph contains a cycle. Pseudocode for a topological sort algorithm is provided.