Do prime numbers satisfy this?

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Is this true that $n\log\left(\frac{p_n}{p_{n+1}}\right)$ is bounded, where $p_n$ is the $n$-th prime number?

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Seems unbounded:

Let $g_n = p_{n+1} - p_n$ be the prime gap, then Westzynthius's result (see link below) states that $\lim\sup \left[ g_n/(\log p_n) \right] = \infty$, hence

$$\lim \sup n \log(p_{n+1}/p_n) = \lim \sup n \log (1 + g_n/p_n) = \lim \sup n g_n/ p _n = \lim \sup g_n/\log n = \infty$$

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%27s_conjecture

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$\frac{p_n}{p_{n+1}}<1$ for all $n$, so when $n\to\infty$, $(\frac{p_n}{p_{n+1}})^n\to0$. so $$n\log(\frac{p_n}{p_{n+1}})=\log(\frac{p_n}{p_{n+1}})^n\to-\infty$$ so this is not bounded