TITLE: Recursive Integration over Piecewise Polynomials: Closed form?
QUESTION [19 upvotes]: Is there a closed form to the following recursive integration?
$$
f_0(x) =
\begin{cases}
1/2 & |x|<1 \\
0 & |x|\geq1
\end{cases}
\\
f_n(x) = 2\int_{-1}^x(f_{n-1}(2t+1)-f_{n-1}(2t-1))\mathrm{d}t
$$
It's very clear that this converges against some function and that quite rapidly, as seen in this image, showing the first 8 terms:

Furthermore, the derivatives of it have some very special properties.
Note how the (renormalized) derivatives consist of repeated and rescaled functions of the previous degree which is obviously a result of the definition of the recursive integral:

EDIT
I found the following likely Fourier transform of the expression above. I do not have a formal proof but it holds for all terms I tried it with (first 11).
$$ \mathcal{F}_x\left[f_n(x)\right](t)=\frac{\sin \left(2^{-n} t\right) \left(\prod _{k=1}^n \frac{2^{k+1} \sin \left(2^{-k} t\right)}{t}\right)}{\sqrt{2 \pi } t}$$
Here an image of how that looks like (first 10 terms in Interval $[-8\pi,8\pi]$):

With this, my question alternatively becomes:
What, if there is one, is the closed form inverse fourier transform of 
$\mathcal{F}_x\left[f_n(x)\right](t)=\frac{\sin \left(2^{-n} t\right) \left(\prod _{k=1}^n \frac{2^{k+1} \sin \left(2^{-k} t\right)}{t}\right)}{\sqrt{2 \pi } t}$,
especially for the case $n\rightarrow\infty$?

REPLY [7 votes]: This equation 
\begin{equation}f'(x)=2f(2x+1)-2f(2x-1), \quad f(0) = 1, 
\tag{$*$}
\end{equation} 
has a finite solution which is also known as the $\mathrm{up}(x)$ or $\mathrm{hut}(x)$ function. It has compact support $\mathrm{supp}\,\mathrm{{up}}(x)=[-1,1]$ and its Fourier transform is $\hat{f}(t)=\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\mathrm{sinc}{(t\cdot 2^{-k})}.$ So, $\mathrm{up}(x)$ is defined by inverse Fourier transform as follows
$$
\mathrm{up}(x)=\frac{1}{2\pi}\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}}e^{-itx}\hat{f}(t)\,dt=
\frac{1}{2\pi}\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}}e^{-itx}\prod\limits_{k=1}^{\infty}\mathrm{sinc}{(t\cdot 2^{-k})}\,dt.
$$
Equation $(*)$ and its finite solution $\mathrm{up}(x)$ was independently introduced in 1971 by V.L. Rvachev, V.A. Rvachev and W. Hilberg. It's interesting to note that a simpler version of $(*)$ was introduced by J. Fabius only 5 years earlier:
\begin{equation}f'(x)=2f(2x), \quad f(0) = 0. 
\tag{$**$}
\end{equation}
By the way, the signs of the first 2 derivatives of $\mathrm{up}(x)$ are the elements of Thue-Morse sequence $\{+1,-1,-1,+1\}$ as well.
P.S. I've uploaded some plots here of generalizations of $\mathrm{up}(x)$ which is known as the $\mathrm{h}_a(x)$ function.