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Put ${\mathcal{C}}_0=\mathbf{Set}$. The initial free construction $L_0:\mathbf{Set}\to {\mathcal{C}}_1$ sends $A$ to $A\times \mathbb{N}$ with ${\alpha }_1(a,k)=(a,k+1)$. A function $f:A\to UB$ extends uniquely by $(a,k)\mapsto {\beta }_1^k(f(a))$. Its induced monad is $T_{0}A=A\times \mathbb{N}$, with unit $a\mapsto (a,0)$ and multiplication $(a,k,l)\mapsto (a,k+l)$. An algebra for a monad is determined by the action of $1\in \mathbb{N}$, so its Eilenberg-Moore category is ${\mathcal{C}}_1$. Thus this first free–forgetful adjunction is a monadic adjunction without needing the given assumption for $n=0$.

The monadic length counts successive Eilenberg-Moore comparison functor steps until the comparison becomes an equivalence. Fix $0\le m<n$. For $m\ge 1$, the free construction in the preceding part adds the $(m+1)$st operation with no fixed points. For $m=0$, the free first operation also has no fixed points. Consequently the left adjoint $F_{n,m}$ to the composite forgetful functor $U_{n,m}:{\mathcal{C}}_n\to {\mathcal{C}}_m$ is obtained by the one-step free construction, followed by empty higher operations. In particular, its underlying object of ${\mathcal{C}}_m$, unit and multiplication are exactly those of the one-step adjunction:as monads, not merely as object functions. The multiplication agrees because both counits evaluate the same first new operation and the same chains; no later operation has a value on a free object.

By the assumed one-step monadic adjunction property, or the explicit argument above when $m=0$, the Eilenberg-Moore category ${\mathcal{C}}_m^{T_m}$ is equivalent to ${\mathcal{C}}_{m+1}$. Under this equivalence the comparison ${\mathcal{C}}_n\to {\mathcal{C}}_m^{T_m}$ is precisely $U_{n,m+1}$. Indeed, its algebra action evaluates each newly adjoined chain using ${\alpha }_1$, and evaluates the first new value using ${\alpha }_{m+1}$; it retains that operation and ignores all higher ones. The comparison has a left adjoint by the same explicit free extension. Thus the whole monadic tower for nested partial unary operations iswith the remaining comparison at stage $m$ equal to $U_{n,m}$, and stage $n$ the identity.

It does not terminate earlier. If $m<n$, take the same underlying two-element set in two objects of ${\mathcal{C}}_n$, making every operation up to $m$ the identity. In the first object make all remaining operations identities; in the second make ${\alpha }_{m+1}$ exchange the two elements, and leave all subsequent operations undefined. Both satisfy the nesting rule. The identity function is a morphism after forgetting to ${\mathcal{C}}_m$, but is not a morphism between the original objects. Thus $U_{n,m}$ is not a full functor, and cannot be an equivalence. Therefore