A strong partial clone is a set of partial operations closed under composition and containing all partial projections. Let X be the set of all Boolean strong partial clones whose total operations are the projections. This set is of practical interest since it induces a partial order on the complexity of NP-complete constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper we study X from the algebraic point of view, and prove that there exists two intervals in X , corresponding to natural constraint satisfaction problems, such that one is at least countably infinite and the other has the cardinality of the continuum.
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