A perfect GO-space which cannot densely embed in any perfect orderable space (Q1903001)

A generalized ordered space (=GO-space) is a triple \((X, \tau, \leq)\) where \((X, \leq)\) is a linearly ordered set and \(\tau\) is Hausdorff topology on \(X\) that has a base consisting of order-convex sets with respect to the order \(\leq\). GO-spaces are subspaces of linearly-ordered topological spaces (= LOTS). A LOTS \(Y = (Y, \lambda, \leq_Y)\) is a linearly ordered extension of a GO-space \((X, \tau, \leq_X)\) if \(X \subseteq Y\), \(\tau = \lambda |X\) and \(\leq_X = \leq_Y |X\). If \(X\) is dense in \(Y\) then \(Y\) is a linearly ordered \(d\)-extension of \(X\). A question that is nearly thirty yearls old is whether or not a perfect (= closed sets are \(G_\delta)\) GO-space can be embedded in a perfect LOTS. In this paper an example is given of a perfect GO-space \(X\) that does not have a LOTS as a perfect \(d\)-extension. This sheds much light on the general question. Of course there could be a perfect LOTS \(Y\) such that \(X\) embedds in \(Y\).