Tabacman E. Variational computation of homoclinic orbits for twist maps. (472K, PostScript) ABSTRACT. This paper presents a method for computing homoclinic orbits for twsit maps of the d-dimensional annulus, as critical points of a function. It is similar to the method used for periodic orbits. This method is used for proving the existence of orbits homoclinic to fixed points satifying certain (simple) conditions.