On monomial representations of finitely generated nilpotent groups

A result of D. Segal states that every complex irreducible representation of a finitely generated nilpotent group $G$ is monomial if and only if $G$ is abelian-by-finite. A conjecture of A. N. Parshin, recently proved affirmatively by I.V. Beloshapka and S. O. Gorchinskii (2016), characterizes the monomial irreducible representations of finitely generated nilpotent groups. This article gives a slightly shorter proof of the conjecture combining the ideas of I. D. Brown and P. C. Kutzko. We also characterize finite dimensional irreducible representations of two step nilpotent groups and also provide a full description of the finite dimensional representations of two step groups whose center has rank one.