We show that the lower-semicontinuous envelope of a non-convex double integral may not admit a representation as a double integral. By taking an integrand with value +∞ except at three points (say -1, 0 and 1) we give a simple proof and an explicit formula for the relaxation that hopefully may shed some light on this type of problems. This is a simplified version of examples by Mora-Corral and Tellini, and Kreisbeck and Zappale, who characterize the lower-semicontinuous envelope via Young measures.
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