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A strictly decreasing function between uncountable subsets of the reals

The following theorem can be proved by the standard technique of inductive killing everything relevant (in this case decreasing homeomorphisms between uncountable $G_\delta$-subsets of the real line):

Theorem (CH). Under CH there exits an uncountable subset $X$ of the real line admitting no strictly decreasing function $f:Z\to X$ defined on an uncountable subset $Z\subset X$.

On the other hand, a known PFA-results of Baumgartner (about the order isomorphness of any $\aleph_1$-dense subsets of the real line) implies the following

Theorem (PFA). Under PFA, for any uncountable subset $X\subset\mathbb R$ there exists a strictly decreasing function $f:Z\to X$, defined on an uncountable subset $Z\subset X$.

Now

Question. Can this PFA-theorem be proved under a weaker assumption like OCA or (MA$+\neg$ CH)?

Taras Banakh
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