Commutation relations and Vandermonde determinants

We consider a certain decomposition of the matrix algebra Mn(F ), where F is a field. The commutation relations of that decomposition yield an n × n matrix Mn , which determines the multilinear polynomial identities of Mn(F ). Thus if char(F ) = 0, the matrix Mn ) determines the polynomial identities of Mn(F ). We show that M Mn(F ) is very close to the tensor product of two n × n Vandermonde matrices. In particular this allows us to evaluate the determinant of Mn .