Shapiro gave a combinatorial proof of a bilinear generating function for Chebyshev
    polynomials equivalent to the formula
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\frac{1}{1-ax-x^2}\ast \frac{1}{1-bx-x^2}
                =  \frac{1-x^2}{1-abx-(2+a^2+b^2)x^2
                -abx^3+x^4},
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= \frac{1-x^2}{1-abx-(2+a^2+b^2)x^2
-abx^3+x^4}, \end{displaymath}">
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where <IMG
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 ALT="$*$"> denotes the Hadamard product. In a similar way, by considering tilings of a <IMG
 WIDTH="48" HEIGHT="34" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"
 SRC="img3.gif"
 ALT="$2\times n$"> rectangle
    with <IMG
 WIDTH="47" HEIGHT="34" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"
 SRC="img4.gif"
 ALT="$1\times1$"> and <IMG
 WIDTH="47" HEIGHT="34" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"
 SRC="img5.gif"
 ALT="$1\times 2$"> bricks in the top row, and <IMG
 WIDTH="47" HEIGHT="34" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"
 SRC="img4.gif"
 ALT="$1\times1$"> and <IMG
 WIDTH="48" HEIGHT="34" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0"
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 ALT="$1\times n$"> bricks in the bottom row,
    we find an explicit formula for the
    Hadamard product
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\frac{1}{1-ax-x^2}\ast \frac{x^m}{1-bx-x^n}.
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 ALT="\begin{displaymath}\frac{1}{1-ax-x^2}\ast \frac{x^m}{1-bx-x^n}.\end{displaymath}">
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