Inhomogeneous Sobolev and Besov Spaces: Embeddings and prevalent smoothness

Abstract

In this article, we introduce inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces that naturally generalise the standard Sobolev-Slobodeckij spaces. The inhomogeneity of these spaces is governed by a set function $\mu$, referred to as an environment. In the case where $\mu$ is an almost doubling set function, we relate these new spaces with inhomogeneous Besov spaces recently introduced by Barral-Seuret in 2023. When $\mu$ is in addition a capacity, wee also prove that prevalent elements in such spaces are multifractal (with a singularity spectrum that we determine), completing previous Baire generic results already obtained.