We recall three well-known theorems related to the simplest codimension-one bifurcations occurring in discrete time dynamical systems, such as the fold, flip and Neimark–Sacker bifurcations, and analyze these bifurcations in presence of certain degeneracy conditions, when the above mentioned theorems are not applied. The occurrence of such degenerate bifurcations is particularly important in piecewise smooth maps, for which it is not possible to specify in general the result of the bifurcation, as it strongly depends on the global properties of the map. In fact, the degenerate bifurcations mainly occur in piecewise smooth maps defined in some subspace of the phase space by a linear or linear-fractional function, although not necessarily only by such functions. We also discuss the relation between degenerate bifurcations and border-collision bifurcations.
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