P-adic Numbers is Locally Compact Topological Space

Theorem
Let $p$ be a prime number.

Let $\struct {\Q_p, \norm {\,\cdot\,}_p}$ be the $p$-adic numbers.

Let $\tau_p$ be the topology induced by the non-Archimedean norm $\norm {\,\cdot\,}_p$.

Then the topological space $\struct{\Q_p, \tau_p}$ is locally compact.

Proof
From Local Basis of P-adic Number:
 * $\forall a \in \Q_p :$ the set $\set {a + p^n \Z_p: n \in Z}$ is a local basis of $a$.

From Open and Closed Balls in P-adic Numbers are Compact Subspaces;
 * $\forall a \in \Q_p :$ the set $\set {a + p^n \Z_p: n \in Z}$ is a local basis of compact sets of $a$.

Hence $\struct {\Q_p, \norm {\,\cdot\,}_p}$ is locally compact by definition.