Global existence of strong solution for shallow water system with large   initial data on the irrotational part
  We show existence of global strong solutions with large initial data on the irrotational part for the shallow-water system in dimension $N\geq 2$. We introduce a new notion of \textit{quasi-solutions} when the initial velocity is assumed to be irrotational, these last one exhibit regularizing effects both on the velocity and in a very surprising way also on the density (indeed the density is a priori governed by an hyperbolic equation). We would like to point out that this smoothing effect is purely non linear and is absolutely crucial in order to deal with the pressure term as it provides new damping effects in high frequencies. In particular our result gives a first kind of answer to the problem of the existence of global weak solution for the shallow-water system. We conclude by giving new point wise decay estimates on the solution which improves the previous works \cite{HZ1,HZ2}. 
Boris Haspot (CEREMADE)
math.AP