This document discusses segment trees, which allow querying which stored intervals contain a given point. It presents sample problems involving querying a minimum value in a range or updating an element value. The key functions are initializing the tree by dividing segments and storing sums, querying by checking if a segment is relevant/irrelevant/partially relevant to a range, and updating by adding a value to all affected nodes. These operations have time complexities of O(n log n) for initialization, O(log n) for querying and updating. Segment trees enable efficient range minimum queries and have applications in dynamic range searching problems.