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A generalized linking theorem due to the author and \textit{A. Szulkin} [Generalized linking theorem with and application to a semilinear Schrödinger equation, Adv. Differ. Equ. 3, 441-472 (1998; Zbl 0947.35061)] for functionals of the form \(\Phi(u)={1\over 2} \langle L u,u\rangle -\psi\) where \(L\) is a bounded selfadjoint linear operator and \(\psi\) is bounded below, weakly sequentially lower semicontinuous and \(\nabla \psi\) is weakly sequentially continuous, is applied to solve a Schrödinger equation \(-\Delta u + V(x)u = f(x,u)\) in \(H^1({\mathbb R})\). The author supposes that the nonlinearity \(f\) satisfies the usual assumptions in applications of the Mountain pass theorem of \textit{A. Ambrosetti} and \textit{P. H. Rabinowitz} [J. Funct. Anal. 14, 349-381 (1973; Zbl 0273.49063)] and that 0 lies in a gap of the spectrum of the selfadjoint linear operator \(L\) defined by \((Lu,v)_{H^1({{\mathbb R}^N})}=\int_{{\mathbb R}^N} (\nabla u.\nabla v + V(x) uv) dx\) for \(u,v\in H^1({\mathbb R}^N)\).