This document discusses balanced binary search trees (BSTs), specifically AVL trees. It begins by explaining that regular BSTs can have heights of O(N) in the worst case, making insertion and deletion operations slow. Balanced BSTs like AVL trees aim to keep the height O(log N) through rebalancing rotations after insertions or deletions. The document then covers AVL tree properties and balancing, the four types of rotations (LL, RR, LR, RL) used to rebalance after insertions, examples of constructing an AVL tree by insertion, and the different rotation types (R0, R1, R-1, L0, L1, L-1) used to rebalance