  A metal ring removed from a soap-water solution encloses a film of soap which
can be mathematically described as a minimal surface having the ring as its
only boundary. This is known to everybody. In this letter we suggest a
relativistic extension of the above fluidodynamic system where the soap film is
replaced by a Kalb-Ramond gauge potential $\b(x)$ and the ring by a closed
string. The interaction between the $\b$-field and the string current excites a
new configuration of the system consisting of a relativistic membrane bounded
by the string. We call such a classical solution of the equation of motion an
axionic membrane. As a dynamical system, the axionic membrane admits a
Hamilton-Jacobi formulation which is an extension of the H-J theory of
electromagnetic strings.
