Only scalar quadratic forms can be specified in CVX

CVX is designed to handle linear SDP problems, not arbitrary problems with matrices.

I believe your problem is not generally convex, unless R_arb = R_sum, in which case trace(R_arb*V*R_sum*V) = sum(sum((R_arb*V).*(V*R_sum))) would reduce to a sum of squares which CVX would accept.