Subfactors and 1+1-dimensional TQFTs

We construct a certain `cobordism category’ $\mathcal{D}$ whose morphisms are suitably decorated cobordism classes between similarly decorated closed oriented 1-manifolds, and show that there is essentially a bijection between (1+1-dimensional) unitary topological quantum field theories (TQFTs) defined on $\mathcal{D}$, on the one hand, and Jones’ subfactor planar algebras, on the other.