Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 1999(1999), No. 12, pp. 1-11. Title: Nontrivial solutions to the semilinear Kohn-Laplace equation on R^3 Author: Stepan Tersian (Univ. of Rousse, Bulgaria) Abstract: The existence of nontrivial solutions to the semilinear Kohn-Laplace equation $$ -\Delta _Hu+V(P)u=f(u)$$ is considered under appropriate assumptions on $V(P)$ and $f(u)$. Results are obtained using a variational method and a compact-embedding lemma. Submitted November 26, 1998. Published April 15, 1999. Math Subject Classification: 35J20, 35J25. Key Words: Kohn--Laplace equation; homoclinic type solutions; homogeneous spaces; mountain-pass theorem.