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The paper deals with the so-called multi-symplectic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs), i.e., those having symplectic structures assigned to both space and time variables. More specifically, the author considers the systems from this class that are invariant under Abelian subgroups of the Euclidean group, and the perturbed systems retaining this symmetry. Finding the travelling wave solutions for such systems of PDEs reduces to solving the system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). For unperturbed multi-symplectic systems of PDEs these systems of ODEs are Hamiltonian. For the case when these systems of ODEs also admit an one-parameter symmetry group and satisfy some further technical assumptions, the author considers their perturbations, and proves the persistence of fixed points for the perturbed Poincaré maps by using the Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction. He further applies this result for computation of the so-called Melnikov function, the use of which enables one to investigate the possible chaotic behaviour of solutions for the systems of ODEs in question and hence of the travelling wave solutions of perturbed multi-symplectic systems of PDEs. As an example, the perturbed Korteweg-de Vries equation is considered. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0989.00035].