%0 Journal Article %T Infinite tri-symmetric group, multiplication of double cosets, and checker topological field theories %A Yury A Neretin %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %R 10.1093/imrn/rnr027 %X We consider a product of three copies of infinite symmetric group and its representations spherical with respect to the diagonal subgroup. We show that such representations generate functors from a certain category of simplicial two-dimensional surfaces to the category of Hilbert spaces and bounded linear operators. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4739v1