%0 Journal Article %T The Lee-Wick Fields out of Gravity %A Wu %A Feng %A Zhong %A Ming %J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology %D 2007 %I %R 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.082 %X We study the Maxwell-Einstein theory in the framework of effective field theories. We show that the modified one-loop renormalizable Lagrangian due to quantum gravitational effects contains a Lee-Wick vector field as an extra degree of freedom in the theory. Thus gravity provides a natural mechanism for the emergence of this exotic particle. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.3287