The problem:
Let $a>0$ and let $g\in C^0([-a,a])$. Prove that there exists a unique function $u\in C^0([-a,a])$ such that $u(x)=\frac x2u\left(\frac x2\right)+g(x),$ for all $x\in[-a,a]$.
My attempt At first sight I thought to approach this problem as a fixed point problem from $C^0([-a,a])$ to $C^0([-2a,2a])$, which are both Banach spaces if equipped with the maximum norm. However i needed to define a contraction, because as it stands it is not clear wether my operator $(Tu)(x)=\frac x2u\left(\frac x2\right)+g(x)$ is a contraction or not. Therefore I tried to slightly modify the operator and I picked a $c>a>0$ and defined $T_cu=\frac 1cTu.$ $T_cu$ is in fact a contraction, hence by the contraction lemma i have for granted the existence and the uniqueness of a function $u_c\in C^0([-a,a])$, which is a fixed point for $T_cu.$ Clearly this is not what I wanted and it seems difficult to me to finish using this approach. Am I right, is all what I have done useless? And if this were the case, how to solve this problem?
Thanks in advance.