Abstract
It is proved that the Lieb-Liniger (LL) cusp condition implementing the delta function interaction in one-dimensional Bose gases is dynamically conserved under phase imprinting by pulses of arbitrary spatial form and the subsequent many-body dynamics in the thermodynamic limit is expressed approximately in terms of solutions of the time-dependent single-particle Schrodinger equation for a set of time-dependent orbitals evolving from an initial LL-Fermi sea. As an illustrative application, generation of gray solitons in a LL gas on a ring by a phase-imprinting pulse is studied.