  The Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism is employed to investigate
electron-positron pair production in cylindrically symmetric but otherwise
spatially inhomogeneous, oscillating electric fields. The oscillation
frequencies are hereby tuned to obtain multiphoton pair production in the
nonperturbative threshold regime. An effective mass as well as a
trajectory-based semi-classical analysis are introduced in order to interpret
the numerical results for the distribution functions as well as for the
particle yields and spectra. The results, including the asymptotic particle
spectra, display clear signatures of ponderomotive forces.
