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This question is a follow-up to Would Elliott-Halberstam conjecture follow from GRH?

Assuming any $\theta<1-\Lambda$ where $\Lambda$ is the de Bruijn-Newman constant is an exponent of distribution of the primes, which bounded gap between primes can be reached from Platt and Trudgian's upper bound $\Lambda\leq 0.2$? The best known such gap so far is $246$, which can be reduced to $12$ under the full Elliott-Halberstam conjecture.

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As I understand matters, the only way to get an explicit bound for gaps between consecutive primes (not strings of $m$ consecutive primes for some $m\geq 3$) using that particular level of distribution that is optimal relative to the method is to completely rework everything in

  • DHJ Polymath, Variants of the Selberg sieve, and bounded intervals containing many primes, Research in the Mathematical Sciences volume 1, Article number: 12 (2014), doi:10.1186/s40687-014-0012-7

with $\theta < 0.8$, computing a large number of the implied constants and choosing a new admissible set relative the the level of distribution you have selected. Computing the implied constants is straightforward but tedious. Finding the optimal admissible set sounds a bit more computationally expensive (but completely doable).

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