Type II branes from brane–antibrane in M-theory Original Research Article

We discuss in a systematic way all the possible realisations of branes of M and type II theories as topological solitons of a brane–antibrane system. The classification of all the possibilities, consistent with the structure of the theory, is achieved by studying the Wess–Zumino terms in the worldvolume effective actions of the branes of M-theory and their reductions.