Abstract: The existence of Smale horseshoes for a certain discretized perturbed nonlinear Schroedinger(NLS) equations was established by using n-dimensional versions of the Conley-Moser conditions. As a result, the discretized perturbed NLS system is shown to possess an invariant set Λ on which the dynamics is topologically conjugate to a shift on four symbols.

Key words: homoclinic orbit, Smale horseshoes, Conley-Moser condition, Poincaré map