  A potential motion of ideal incompressible fluid with a free surface and
infinite depth is considered in two-dimensional geometry. A time-dependent
conformal mapping of the lower complex half-plane of the auxiliary complex
variable $w$ into the area filled with fluid is performed with the real line of
$w$ mapped into the free fluid's surface. The fluid dynamics can be fully
characterized by the motion of the complex singularities in the analytical
continuation of both the conformal mapping and the complex velocity. We
consider the short branch cut approximation of the dynamics with the small
parameter being the ratio of the length of the branch cut to the distance
between its center and the real line of $w$. We found that the fluid dynamics
in that approximation is reduced to the complex Hopf equation for the complex
velocity coupled with the complex transport equation for the conformal mapping.
These equations are fully integrable by characteristics producing the infinite
family of solutions, including the pairs of moving square root branch points.
The solutions are compared with the simulations of the fully nonlinear Eulerian
dynamics giving excellent agreement even when the small parameter approaches
about one.
