The instability of spiky steady states for a competing species model with cross diffusion

This paper is concerned with the stability/instability of a class of positive spiky steady states for a quasi-linear cross-diffusion system describing two-species competition. By detailed spectral analysis, it is proved that the spiky steady states for the related shadow system are linearly unstable and the spiky steady states for the original cross-diffusion system are non-linearly unstable.