Wheeler and Feynman electrodynamics within the framework of retarded causality

A frontal collision of two point-like charged particles which are asymptotically free in the remote past and in the distant future is considered. Ten conserved quantities corresponding to the symmetry of a closed system of particles and electromagnetic field under the Poincare group are expressed in terms of particle variables. It is shown that an interference of outgoing electromagnetic waves (retarded Lienard-Wiechert solutions) ensures the action of the field of one source on another (mutual interaction). The combination of wave motions accords with the modified Wheeler and Feynman absorber theory of radiation where (acausal) 'perfect absorption' is replaced by an interference phenomenon