Global conservative solutions for a model equation for shallow water waves of moderate amplitude

In this paper, we study the continuation of solutions to an equation for surface water waves of moderate amplitude in the shallow water regime beyond wave breaking (in 11], Constantin and Lannes proved that this equation accommodates wave breaking phenomena). Our approach is based on a method proposed by Bressan and Constantin 2]. By introducing a new set of independent and dependent variables, which resolve all singularities due to possible wave breaking, the evolution problem is rewritten as a semilinear system. Local existence of the semilinear system is obtained as fixed points of a contractive transformation. Moreover, this formulation allows one to continue the solution after collision time, giving a global conservative solution where the energy is conserved for almost all times. Finally, returning to the original variables, we obtain a semigroup of global conservative solutions, which depend continuously on the initial data.