%0 Journal Article %T The critical temperature for the Ising model on planar doubly periodic graphs %A David Cimasoni %A Hugo Duminil-Copin %J Mathematics %D 2012 %I arXiv %X We provide a simple characterization of the critical temperature for the Ising model on an arbitrary planar doubly periodic weighted graph. More precisely, the critical inverse temperature \beta for a graph G with coupling constants (J_e)_{e\in E(G)} is obtained as the unique solution of a linear equation in the variables (\tanh(\beta J_e))_{e\in E(G)}. This is achieved by studying the high-temperature expansion of the model using Kac-Ward matrices. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0951v1