Absolutely closed nil-2 groups

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Using the description of dominions in the variety of nilpotent groups of class at most two, we give a characterization of which groups are absolutely closed in this variety. We use the general result to derive an easier characterization for some subclasses; e.g. an abelian group G is absolutely closed in N₂ if and only if G/pG is cyclic for every prime p.