Permutation Representations and Group Actions

There are fairly general examples due to Conlon in the paper:

Conlon, S.B., Monomial representations under integral similarity, J. Algebra 13, 496-508 (1969). ZBL0185.06702.

There is even a transitive example, due to Scott:

Scott, Leonard L., Integral equivalence of permutation representations, Sehgal, Surinder (ed.) et al., Group theory. Proceedings of the 21st biennial Ohio State-Denison mathematical conference, Granville, OH (USA), 14-16 May, 1992. Singapore: World Scientific. 262-274 (1993). ZBL0828.20004.

In this example, $G$ is $\text{PSL}(2,29)$ and the permutation actions are on the cosets of two non-conjugate subgroups both isomorphic to the alternating group $A_5$.


It might be a partial answer.

Claim: If $G$ has a nonisomorphic two actions having nonequal number of orbits then the induced actions on $\mathbb Z^n$ are also nonisomorphic.

Let $W=\{v\in\mathbb Z^n\mid gv=v \}$. Clearly $W$ is an $G$-submodule of $V$.

Subclaim: $dim(W)$ is equal to the number of the orbits of $G$ on $X$. (We can talk about dimenssion of $W$ as $\mathbb Z$ is an PID. I do not write the proof of this claim as I believe it will be routine as in the case $\mathbb C^n$ )

Since dimension of $W$ is invariant, two induced actions on $\mathbb Z^n$ are also nonisomorphic.

Thus, if such example exist, the number of the orbits must be same.