Abstract
We construct a \(\Sigma_1\) -interpretation of the class \(BiG_{\mathrm{fin}}\) of all finite bipartite graphs in the class \(2Eq_{\mathrm{fin}}\) of all pairs of equivalence relations with common finite domain; this gives the hereditary undecidability of the \(\Sigma_2\) -theory of \(2Eq_{\mathrm{fin}}\) . Next, we construct a \(\Sigma_1\) -interpretation of \(2Eq_{\mathrm{fin}}\) in the class \(LEq_{\mathrm{fin}}\) of all pairs consisting of a linear ordering and an equivalence relation with common finite domain; this gives the hereditary undecidability of the \(\Sigma_2\) -theory of \(LEq_{\mathrm{fin}}\) . The results obtained are, in a certain sense, optimal, since the \(\Pi_2\) -theories of the classes under consideration are decidable.