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The authors study a class of second-order Hamiltonian systems of the type (1) \(q''= -U'(t,q)\), where \(U'(t,q)\) denotes the gradient with respect to \(q\) of a smooth potential \(U: \mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}\) having a strict local maximum at the origin. Under some natural conditions on \(U(t,q)\) the authors prove the existence of a class of multibump solutions whose \(\omega\)-limit is a suitable homoclinic orbit of the system at infinity. The authors verify their approach in the case of the perturbed Duffing-like equation \(\ddot q= q- a(t)\) \((1+ \varepsilon \cos (\omega(t) t))q^3\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0936.00033].