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\textit{S. K. Donaldson} [Commun. Math. Phys. 93, 453-460 (1984; Zbl 0581.14008)] found a beautiful bijection between the set of marked \(SU(r)\)-instantons and the set of couples of a rank-\(r\) vector bundle on \(\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}\) and a trivialization on a fixed line. Then, based on \textit{K. Hulek}'s result [in: Vector bundles and differential equations, Proc., Nice 1979, Prog. Math. 7, 113-114 (1980; Zbl 0446.14006)], he concluded that the moduli space of marked \(SU(r)\)-instantons with fixed instanton number is connected. Hulek's result is, however, insufficient to deduce the connectedness. In fact, a vector bundle \(E\) on \(\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}\) is said to be \(s\)-stable in Hulek's sense if \(H^0 (\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C},E) =0\) and \(H^0 (\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}, E^\vee) =0\). Hulek (loc. cit.) proved that the set of \(s\)-stable vector bundles on \(\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}\) with \(r(E) =r\), \(c_1(E) =0\) and \(c_2(E) =n\) is parametrized by an irreducible algebraic set. There are vector bundles on \(\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}\) that correspond to marked \(SU(r)\)-instantons but are not \(s\)-stable. For example, if \(c_2(E) <r(E)\), \(E\) cannot be \(s\)-stable and we have, on the other hand, \(SU(r)\)-instantons with instanton number \(n<r\). In this article we shall show that we can regard the couple \((E,h)\) of a vector bundle \(E\) on \(\mathbb{P}^2_\mathbb{C}\) and a trivialization \(h\) of \(E\) on a fixed line as a parabolic stable vector bundle. Then, the connectedness of the moduli space of marked \(SU(r)\)-instantons reduces to that of the moduli space of parabolic stable sheaves. It is rather complicated but not hard to prove the connectedness of the moduli space of parabolic stable sheaves. The author hopes that he could prove in this way the connectedness of the moduli space of marked \(SU(r)\)-instantons. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0868.00030].