In this paper, we study the minimization of the integral functionals of the type \int_{\Omega}\frac{|\nabla v|^2}{\big[1+B|v|\big]^{2}} + \frac12\int_{\Omega} a(x)|v|^2 - \frac1q\int_{\Omega} \rho(x)|v|^q, where 0<B , 0<a_0\leq a(x)\in L^1_{\mathrm{loc}}(\Omega) , 0\not\equiv\rho^+(x)\in L^{{\frac{2}{2-q}}}(\Omega) , and 0<q<2 . The degeneracy of the principal part of the functional implies that it is not coercive in W_{0}^{1,2}(\Omega) and pushes to set and solve the minimization problem in W_{0}^{1,1}(\Omega) instead of the space W_{0}^{1,2}(\Omega) . In addition, when the coefficients a(x) and \rho(x) are merely in L^1(\Omega) , but satisfy for some Q>0 the condition |\rho(x)|\leq Q a(x) , we show the existence of a minimum of the functional which belongs to W_{0}^{1,2}(\Omega){\cap L^\infty(\Omega)}\setminus\{0\} .
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