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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0722.00011.] The author explains results and a project of his joint work with F. Greenleaf. Their attention is focused on harmonic analysis for monomial representations of nilpotent Lie groups. Let \(G\) be a connected and simply connected nilpotent Lie group with Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\). Let \(K\) be an analytic subgroup of \(G\) with Lie algebra \(\mathfrak k\) and let \(\chi\) be a unitary character of \(K\). Then we know the direct integral decomposition into irreducibles of the induced representation \(\tau = ind^ G_ K \chi \) of \(G\). Let \(\ell \in {\mathfrak g}^*\) be such that \(\chi (exp X) = e^{2\pi i\ell (x)}\) (\(X \in {\mathfrak k})\) and let \(\Omega_ \tau = \ell +{\mathfrak k}^ \bot\) with \({\mathfrak k}^ \bot =\{\lambda \in {\mathfrak g}^*;\;\lambda|_{\mathfrak k}=0\}\). The decomposition of \(\tau\) is described in terms of \(H\)-orbits in \(\Omega_ \tau\) under the coadjoint action of \(G\) [cf. \textit{L. Corwin, F. Greenleaf} and \textit{G. Grélaud}; Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 304, 549-583 (1987; Zbl 0629.22005)]. In this note they propose to study the algebra \(D_ \tau(K\backslash G)\) of \(G\)-invariant differential operators on the space of \(C^ \infty\)-vectors of \(\tau\). This study will be related to the decomposition of \(\tau\). The first result they announce is that \(D_ \tau(K\backslash G)\) is commutative in the finite multiplicity case and that the spectral decomposition of \(D_ \tau(K\backslash G)\) also gives a direct integral decomposition of \(\tau\) into irreducibles. Then they explain several attractive conjectures concerning \(D_ \tau(K\backslash G)\).