Finite energy solutions for nonlinear elliptic equations with competing gradient, singular and $L^1$ terms

In this paper we deal with the following boundary value problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p}u + g(u) | \nabla u|^{p} = h(u)f & \text{in $\Omega$,} \newline u\geq 0 & \text{in $\Omega$,} \newline u=0 & \text{on $\partial \Omega$,} \ \end{cases} \end{equation*} in a domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^{N}$ $(N \geq 2)$, where $1\leq p<N$, $g$ is a positive and continuous function on $[0,\infty)$, and $h$ is a continuous function on $[0,\infty)$ (possibly blowing up at the origin). We show how the presence of regularizing terms $h$ and $g$ allows to prove existence of finite energy solutions for nonnegative data $f$ only belonging to $L^1(\Omega)$.