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Local variables are not members of the class; they are created and deleted whenever the method is invoked. So they would not change the "size" of the class.
I looked for a few articles: see whether these are of any use:
1 2 3, but I think you will find better descriptions in books like
Horstmann and Cornell (in my copy 7th edition vol I, chapter 12, page 666).