Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let A be a finite set with |A| > 2. We describe all clones on A containing the set SA of all permutations of A among its unary operations. (A clone on A is a composition closed set of finitary operations on A containing all projections). With a few exceptions such a clone C is either essentially unary or cellular i.e. there exists a monoid M of self-maps of A containing SA such that either C = (= all essentially unary operations agreeing with some f ∊ M) or C = ∪ Гh where 1 < h ≤ |A| and Гh consists of all finitary operations on A taking at most h values. The exceptions are subclones of Burle's clone or of its variant (provided |A| is even).