Fourier multipliers in Hilbert spaces

This is a survey on a notion of invariant operators, or Fourier multipliers on Hilbert spaces. This concept is defined with respect to a fixed partition of the space into a direct sum of finite dimensional subspaces. In particular this notion can be applied to the important case of $L^2(M)$ where $M$ is a compact manifold $M$ endowed with a positive measure. The partition in this case comes from the spectral properties of a a fixed elliptic operator $E$.