Bethe ansatz study of one-dimensional Bose and Fermi gases with periodic and hard wall boundary conditions

We extend the exact periodic Bethe ansatz solution for one-dimensional bosons and fermions with delta-interaction and arbitrary internal degrees of freedom to the case of hard wall boundary conditions. We give an analysis of the ground-state properties of fermionic systems with two internal degrees of freedom, including expansions of the ground-state energy in the weak and strong coupling limits.