“…In recent decades, the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic orbits for secondorder Hamiltonian systems and their discrete analogues have been widely investigated by many authors, see for example [1][2][3][5][6][7][8][9]12,[14][15][16][17][19][20][21][26][27][28][29][30][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40] and the references therein. For the case when the condition (L1) L(t) is positive definite uniformly in t ∈ R is satisfied and 0 is a local minimum of the energy functional associated with (1.1), the Mountain-pass theorem proved itself as an effective tool to establish the existence and multiplicity of homoclinic solutions for (1.1), see for example 2164 XIAOPING WANG [5, 6, 14-17, 20, 21, 30, 34, 36].…”